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October 9, 2014 6:06:53 PM

Hello!

I have a ssd and a hdd on my pc. My operation system was downloaded to my ssd. The harddrive is recognized under devices on my pc, both in bios and in the device manager on Windows 8. However its only listing my ssd (C: ) and my disk drive as (D: ). How can i get my pc to use the hdd and save stuff to it? I'm assuming nothing is wrong and its just a setting, but I'm not sure.

-Eddie

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October 9, 2014 6:10:28 PM

Have you formated the disk? this will be under computer management.
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October 9, 2014 6:13:29 PM

eddiegallagher said:
Hello!

I have a ssd and a hdd on my pc. My operation system was downloaded to my ssd. The harddrive is recognized under devices on my pc, both in bios and in the device manager on Windows 8. However its only listing my ssd (C: ) and my disk drive as (D: ). How can i get my pc to use the hdd and save stuff to it? I'm assuming nothing is wrong and its just a setting, but I'm not sure.

-Eddie


What you see is perfectly normal.
SSD as C, HDD as D.

See these for how to manage those spaces:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirect...
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redi...
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October 10, 2014 9:15:12 AM

The ssd is C:, but the disk drive is D:, not the hdd.
I haven't formatted it yet. How do i do that?
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a c 909 G Storage
October 10, 2014 9:26:57 AM

"disk drive" as in the CD/DVD? OK.

You should be able to see the HDD in Disk Management.
Right click on it.
What options does it give you?

Format, etc...
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October 10, 2014 3:35:07 PM

Got it! the harddrive was "healthy and online" so i just needed to assign a partition to it, gave it a letter, and finished that. Its all good to go! Thanks for the help!
-Eddie
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