I have a new HDD that was installed today everything i sworking fine it is showing online in disk management, however, It is showing up in disk management as unallocated space the only options i get when i right click is convert to dynamic disk, convert to GPT disk, offline, properties and help...how do i get this HDD showing in explorer as a usable disk?
New HDD not showing in explorer?
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RastislavB
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Have you formatted the new HDD? New HDDs will come unformatted and unpartitioned. You need to partition it and then format it to a certain filesystem for example Windows uses NTFS.
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