moving external HDD to internal

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I've had a Western Digital green 1TB kicking around that I used to back up media using an external drive mount. I wanted to move this internal and just hook up using SATA so I can access all the time. The drive already has files I want to keep. When I install it it does not mount with a volume letter but it does show up in the disk management and shows it healthy, what gives?

Any help would be appreciated.

Here is a screenshot of the disk management
 
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It looks like it has been an OS drive at some point, which is probably why you can't do anything but delete it. I'd just delete the volume, then reinitialize it and format it.
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Your link is inaccessible. Which external housing did you remove the drive from (i.e. which WD model, some have data encryption)?

If all else fails, save the data on another drive, delete the volume, reinitialize and reformat when attached internal -- then move the data back on to the drive. And always keep another back up.

 
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this link should be good, not sure why the last one wasn't going through
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzGkF1ju-sglQ0ItR3pCNzBDRE0/view?usp=sharing

The drive was just loose and I would swap it in and out from an Anker docking station, this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Anker%C2%AE-External-Docking-Station-Support/dp/B005UA3I72

So i don't believe there was any level of encryption associated with the drive. I'm trying to install this drive in the machine so I can use this as a drive to temporarily store files as I'm cleaning off drives and consolidating into one system...

 
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