Brand new HDD cannot be found anywhere besides the BIOS

Chason

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Feb 13, 2016
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So when I hooked up this new HDD I went through the steps to find it on the disk management but it wasn't anywhere to be found i went into my BIOS and found it, i checked to see if the drive was spinning (It was) and I haven't found a solution i cannot partition the HDD if its not there to do anything to and i can't run windows 7 onto the drive because i no longer own a disk drive i do however have a USB windows boot but i have tried to do that 3 times and nothing has come of it, no where i have looked has given me anything to work with any ideas?

WD 3TB HDD is what i am trying to work with.
 
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Has the drive ever been formatted on any non-Windows system?

I'm sure that you have tried it on a different SATA port and with another cable.

If you open a command prompt window and type diskpart, and then list disk, is it in the list of disks?

RealBeast

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Has the drive ever been formatted on any non-Windows system?

I'm sure that you have tried it on a different SATA port and with another cable.

If you open a command prompt window and type diskpart, and then list disk, is it in the list of disks?
 
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