Hard Drives Showing up in Disk Management but Not in Other Things

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Hey, I recently cloned one of my 2 hard drives to a new SSD. Everything works, but at first my hard drives showed up in the BIOS but not my OS. I reinstalled my drivers and now they show up under Disk Management. Problem is, my SSD is out of space and I want to transfer some games to my hard drive, but when I right-click and select "Send to" the drives don't show up. Pls help. Thaaaaank you.
 
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If they are Steam or Origin games you can make new corresponding folders on the new drives and then copy the respective games in. Then all you need to do is add the folders to the Steam/Origin game locations as both support having games in multiple locations.

Games not on Steam or Origin would most likely need to be uninstalled and reinstalled to the new drive as already mentioned.

* Be sure to make a backup first in case something goes wrong. *

You can format or initialize the drives if they need it by going into disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) but keep in mind that explorer hide empty drives by default so dont panic if they dont show up there after the format.
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USAFRet is right about transferring your games. I would un-install them and re-install them on to the drive you want them on. Just make sure you save any necessary game save data.

In disk management
1. You may have to format the drive if you haven't formatted it yet.
2. You may have to give the drive a different drive letter if the one it's attempting to use is being used already.
 
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If they are Steam or Origin games you can make new corresponding folders on the new drives and then copy the respective games in. Then all you need to do is add the folders to the Steam/Origin game locations as both support having games in multiple locations.

Games not on Steam or Origin would most likely need to be uninstalled and reinstalled to the new drive as already mentioned.

* Be sure to make a backup first in case something goes wrong. *

You can format or initialize the drives if they need it by going into disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) but keep in mind that explorer hide empty drives by default so dont panic if they dont show up there after the format.
 
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How do I choose which drive to reinstall them on?
 
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What is formatting and how do I format them? Will my data be lost if I do? Also which drives do I format?
 
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