Seagate 4TB HDD won't show up on "My computer".

Joyrid3r · Feb 14, 2015

It does show up in the "disk management" section, although, it shows that it's completely free, which it isn't. Have checked driver updates etc and is apparently all ok. Running Win 8.1 if it makes any difference.

Nuwan Fernando · Feb 14, 2015

What is your Motherboard?

Winly · Feb 14, 2015

if the hard drive is new, remember you have to format the drive and set it to GPT if you are in windows 7, so you can use the whole 4TB as 1 drive.

Joyrid3r · Feb 14, 2015

Winly :

Had it a while now and have done that already, using win 8.1

Joyrid3r · Feb 14, 2015

Nuwan Fernando :

Not sure on that one, I'm using an Acer V3-177G laptop if that helps at all

Winly · Feb 14, 2015

Joyrid3r :

when your drive is connected, does it comes up under Disk Management? what about BIOS?

Joyrid3r · Feb 14, 2015

Winly :

shows up under disk management but it can only tell there is a drive there not the fact it has stuff on it. I'm not real computer literate, so unsure about BIOS, how would I check?

Winly · Feb 14, 2015

Joyrid3r :

So the driver shows under Disk Management, So, you need to format the drive. Right click where it says (Disk #) look for the 4TB drive and select format, then select GPT. what windows are you using? and where was that drive before?

Joyrid3r · Feb 14, 2015

Winly :

Doesn't show in BIOS, and this is how it appears in Disk Management.

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Nuwan Fernando · Feb 14, 2015

What you need is to assign a drive letter.In disk management, Right click on that partition.(Not the disk) --> Change Drive letter and path. --> Click add --> Select a drive letter --> OK.

Winly · Feb 16, 2015

Nuwan Fernando :

Correct.

Joyrid3r · Feb 17, 2015

Nuwan Fernando :

I had tried that the other day also but all I get is this...(no options)

Winly · Feb 17, 2015

Joyrid3r :

thats weird. I will suggest hooking that drive to another computer and try to format and see what happens.
Try this solutions http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1997704/recognize-4tb-gpt-hdd-windows-explorer.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/319552-installing-new-4tb-hard-drive-gpt-wont-format.html

fzabkar · Feb 21, 2015

I would examine the drive with a disc editor, eg DMDE (freeware).

http://dmde.com/

Could you show us DMDE's Partitions window?

DMDE 4TB sample screenshots
http://s10.postimg.org/l2hgisl3t/4tb.jpg
http://s9.postimg.org/mbyqq3vnj/good_4tb.jpg

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