Second hard drive will appear in BIOS and disk management, but not in This PC in Windows 8

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I've tried doing multiple things, however, the hard drive seems to not appear regardless of what I do. It used to have Xubuntu installed which I could access through the boot order, although I formatted it. Through AOMEI Partition Assistant, I can get change the letter of the drive from *: to D: however when restarting my PC, it changes back to how it was before so the drive is not being recognised in "This PC" I can't see any option in disk management to change the drive however.

Is there something I can do so it stays permanently?
 
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Usually in Disk Management if the drive is initialized and online, when you right click on the drive you should have a “Change Drive Letter and Path” option. If that is not available you can try to initialize the Disk first. If that is not available as well try running diskpart as suggested.

Once you run diskpart, you will have a absolutely blank HDD. What you have to do then is go to Disk Management and Initialize the drive. Right-click on the “Disk (n) Not Initialized” and click Initialize Disk. Then you will have the option to choose between MBR and GPT. If the drive is more than 2 TB you should use GPT, if not you could use MBR as well. Once the Disk is listed as Basic and online right click the unallocated space and...
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The Xubuntu install made it unrecognizable in Windows. I would open a command prompt (admin level with right click run as admin) and use diskpart to clean the drive:

diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n = the problem drive)
clean

Then it will show up in disk management as unpartitioned and you can initialize and format.
 
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Would that mean having it as something like NTFS? (I think that's the name)
 
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Hello,

Usually in Disk Management if the drive is initialized and online, when you right click on the drive you should have a “Change Drive Letter and Path” option. If that is not available you can try to initialize the Disk first. If that is not available as well try running diskpart as suggested.

Once you run diskpart, you will have a absolutely blank HDD. What you have to do then is go to Disk Management and Initialize the drive. Right-click on the “Disk (n) Not Initialized” and click Initialize Disk. Then you will have the option to choose between MBR and GPT. If the drive is more than 2 TB you should use GPT, if not you could use MBR as well. Once the Disk is listed as Basic and online right click the unallocated space and click create a “New Simple Volume”. For the file system choose “NTFS” if you want to use the HDD on Windows.

Hope that helps.
 
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While actually the data is all still where it was it is no longer recoverable by you at least, and the drive will now be detected by windows as unpartitioned and you must (as techpumpkin said) initialize it to MBR or GPT (if over 2TB) and then format the drive using disk management. Windows will by default use NTFS as the file system.

 
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Thank you for the answers. These have all been helpful in determining the issue and now it's a drive that's available for storage. One thing I found was that a restart was needed.
 
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I had to click 'Show Hidden Devices' in Device manager. It should show up there, in my case it was a Samsung SSD EVO. Uninstall it. Reboot. It should show up in disk management now.
 
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