can't see original hard drive

jagga123

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Hi, I had a 1TB hard drive with windows 7 installed, I got a new SSD drive and installed windows 8.1 in it, and formated the 1TB hard drive to delete the Windows 7...now I have my windows 8 running in the SSD but I can't see the 1TB drive in My Computer, I need to use that for my games, help plz
 
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I said drive management, but should have said disk management. You don't want the device manager - if you open Windows explorer, right-click on "Computer" and select "Manage". That will open up your Computer Management menu. On the left, you'll see a heading labelled "Storage" and under that "Disk Management". Left-click on that and it will show you what drives are hooked up and available for management. Your HDD should be there but without a drive letter assigned. You can assign it a drive letter as well as setting up partitions, etc.

jagga123

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I didn't right click the start button yet, my last reply was to the guy who asked if I checked in control panel, and I couldn't see from there in the device management... But I will try right clicking start button and check disk management tonight, I am at work now so can't do it right now
 
I said drive management, but should have said disk management. You don't want the device manager - if you open Windows explorer, right-click on "Computer" and select "Manage". That will open up your Computer Management menu. On the left, you'll see a heading labelled "Storage" and under that "Disk Management". Left-click on that and it will show you what drives are hooked up and available for management. Your HDD should be there but without a drive letter assigned. You can assign it a drive letter as well as setting up partitions, etc.
 
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