Unable to use/ open my mechanical drive.

DanielRose

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May 21, 2014
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Hi i am running my operating system off a 120G Samsung SSD but am using a 1TB WD Black edition mechanical HDD. The problem is that the i cannot access the mechanical drive only the SSD. The mechanical drive appears in both BIOS and device manager but i cannot access or open the mechanical drive from my computer. Has this happened to anyone else? or does anyone know how to fix it?
 
Solution
Is this a new HDD?
If it is, open Disk Management, and partition the drive, then format the partition.
Windows My Computer cannot recognize unformatted hard drives.