Why cant i see my Hard drive. (Just installed)

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fabrilash

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I just installed my new hard drive. I had already two. Just installed another one but it is not recognized. (It doesnt show me that its there)

Anybody knows what can i do?

Its a normal hdd. 1tb

(its not a boot drive or any of that. I just bought it on store)
 
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Shaun o
Any new drive you buy id in a raw format.
If you connect it to your system, the reason you cannot see it, or it does not show in windows explorer is because you have to format it first, and set the disk to be online.

Use disk management of windows to scan for the newly connected drive.
Click on the action tab, then select rescan disks.

You should see you new 1TB drive in the windowed list of connected drives.
Right click in the main window and format the drive.

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Shaun o

Shaun o

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Any new drive you buy id in a raw format.
If you connect it to your system, the reason you cannot see it, or it does not show in windows explorer is because you have to format it first, and set the disk to be online.

Use disk management of windows to scan for the newly connected drive.
Click on the action tab, then select rescan disks.

You should see you new 1TB drive in the windowed list of connected drives.
Right click in the main window and format the drive.

 
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JackNaylorPE

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If I understand the above, you can see it in BIOS but you don't see it in Windows. As indicated above, ope Disk Management and format it (NTFS)

A. Right Click on the diagram for the disk in question, select format

.. or

B. Right Click on the disk in question in the top windows (list) question, select format
 
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