Harddrive shows up in device manager but not My Computer.

chrisdude183 · May 29, 2016

I just got a Seagate 2TB HDD in addition to my old reused WD 256GB HDD, but it's not showing up in My Computer, it does however show up in Device Manager. I already tried switching the SATA cables inbetween the two but the WD one is the only one that shows up.

My specs are (if this helps at all):
MSI PC Mate Z97
Intel Pentium G3240
EVGA GeForce GTX 750 ti FTW
8GB DDR3 RAM.

Please help me solve this problem I really need that extra storage.
Thanks.

k1114 · May 29, 2016

Go into disk management and initialize it.

Dex does Computers · May 29, 2016

Right click on computer select manage. There is a disk managemnt on the left side. Initialize the new hdd then create a new simple partition. Voila theres your new drive.

chrisdude183 · May 30, 2016

How do I initialize it?

k1114 · May 30, 2016

You see it in disk management? Right click it and click initialize disk. Now right click it and click create new simple volume. All the settings you can leave default.

Dex does Computers · May 30, 2016

chrisdude183 :

Right click initialize it. Then click on the bar "new simple drive"

chrisdude183 · May 30, 2016

k1114 :

When I right-click it there isn't anything that says "Initialize disk"

chrisdude183 · May 30, 2016

Turns out it was already initialized, I just had to create a new volume. Thanks for helping!

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