My new HDD is unallocated?

paintboy131 · Oct 20, 2014

I have an SSD and an HDD. I just downloaded all the drivers and windows on my SSD and haven't used my HDD. It hasn't given me the option either. I tried restarting, unplugging and going to disk manager but I don't know what to do, please help

ThatVietGuy · Oct 20, 2014

So it doesn't appear in Disk Management? If it appears in Disk Management all you have to do is right click the drive and choose to make a new simple volume.

Ace251091 · Oct 21, 2014

You have unallocated disk space. I'm giving you a wiki how article and a youtube video to help you. Both tutorials are for Win7/Win8.

WikiHow Article:

http://www.wikihow.com/Allocate-a-Drive-Letter

Youtube Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXJsAR5qsVo

SuperSoph_WD · Oct 21, 2014

Hey there, paintboy131!

First, make sure you have activated the SATA port you connected your drive to in the BIOS.
While in disk management, you need to right-click on the drive where it says 'unallocated' and create a partition and format it with NTFS. You can also use the links that @Ace251091 mentioned.
If you don't have such an option in Disk management, you most probably have to initialize the HDD first.
Here are a couple of step-by-steps that might be useful as well

How to initialize an SSD/HDD on Windows: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1018
How to partition and format a hard drive on Windows: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865

Hope this helped! Good luck!

SuperSoph_WD

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