New computer (hard disk problems)

woodenruler

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Dec 24, 2013
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Hello, I recently built a new computer (and everything was built and handed over to me today, yippee!) with two drives, an SSD only meant for the bootup (and storing windows, and some of the other core systems, etc.) and a 2TB hard drive meant for storing everything else.

When I later got into re-downloading my games, I was wondering which drive they were being installed to, and one thing lead to another, so I clicked on the D drive which prompted me with this messege "You need to format the drive in drive D:, do you want to format the drive?"
then the options were
"Format" and "Cancel".

I sure as hell don't want any of anything on my SSD (which is 512gb, not too bad but still), and I'm unsure if this is actually a serious problem or just something that usually has to be done when you're using a fresh/new hard drive.

The computer I have is pretty high-end and runs Windows 8.1.

Thanks!
 
Solution
Look under disk management and see if the secondary drive shows up as unallocated space. If whoever built your computer did not format the 2TB drive after installing it then yes, this is common. When a new hard drive is installed you have to create a partition and format the drive.
Look under disk management and see if the secondary drive shows up as unallocated space. If whoever built your computer did not format the 2TB drive after installing it then yes, this is common. When a new hard drive is installed you have to create a partition and format the drive.
 
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