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Hard Drive not detected! need some help asap guys :(
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WyomingKnott
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A lot more information would help. Some questions like
Is it homebuilt or from a vendor? What make and model?
Was it visible before and disappeared, or never visible?
What OS are you running?
Where is it not visible? No disk letter, not in Disk Manager, or not seen in BIOS? It could be as simple as partitioning a brand-new drive and formatting the partition.
Is it homebuilt or from a vendor? What make and model?
Was it visible before and disappeared, or never visible?
What OS are you running?
Where is it not visible? No disk letter, not in Disk Manager, or not seen in BIOS? It could be as simple as partitioning a brand-new drive and formatting the partition.
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Thanks for the quick reply! ok here we go , first of all its homebuilt, its piece by piece added, i have 2 hard drives, one of them its SSD which works just fine, but the other one is a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB , it was visible before i downgrade to windows 7 from windows 8.1 (through a clean install) and its only visible in device manager.... 
WyomingKnott
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If A) there is not anything on it that you need, and B) it is visible in the device manager, then just partition it and format the partition. If there should have been data on it, let's look at what device manager shows (no partition, raw partition) and try recovery software.
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no there is not nothing on it cause i formatted it when i clean installed windows 7 ,but i just wanna use it, but windows are installed on the ssd , so thats out of the way, (and sorry but im not so good with computers and stuff :/ ) how do i partition the hard drive from the device manager?
WyomingKnott
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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system - there's even a picture. The trick is to make sure that you get the second drive and not the SSD. Hint - it's the larger one that you want to partition and format.
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plus everytime i try to run disk management on it to initialize it i get '(virtual disk manager) the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error'
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i just noticed that everything i tried to do until now this error pops up
'(virtual disk manager) the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error'
'(virtual disk manager) the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error'
WyomingKnott
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Have you used Google to look up that message? If not, may I politely suggest that you do when something like that pops up? It's what I'm doing right now, since I personally have not heard of a virtual disk manager before.
EDIT 1: And now I have a better idea what that is: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/79241-virtual-disk-manager.html
EDIT 2: I haven't found it; I'll ping some more people to come over to this thread.
EDIT 1: And now I have a better idea what that is: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/79241-virtual-disk-manager.html
EDIT 2: I haven't found it; I'll ping some more people to come over to this thread.
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