Odd Drive Problems

Alexander_96 · Mar 9, 2017

I just installed a new HDD in my PC and booted up to find that it didnt appear in the windows file explorer. My first instinct was to boot to BIOS, which I did. The bios was reading the drive and i ran smart tests on it which all came back as 0 errors. I booted into windows and it still wasnt in the file explorer. I checked the device manager and its there. I clicked properties went to volumes and clicked populate. Still not in the explorer. I check for new drivers. Drivers are up to date. Not in the explorer.

ArtPog · Mar 9, 2017

And when you accessed Disk Management, was the drive listed there. And had it been assigned a drive letter by DM?

Ironsounds · Mar 9, 2017

Hello... It's an OS security thing... Windows has "security" and you have to give permission to the OS as "administrator" to use/install additional Devices.

1) Right click Computer-Manage-storage-Disk Management.
2) Right click the graphics below for the NEW drive... (*complete partitioning and formatting for the drive if needed).
3) And "Mark Partition as Active"

* If the Drive already has DATA on it.... Just mark the "Partition active" So you don't lose any of it B )

Alexander_96 · Mar 9, 2017

I found the issue I just had to create a new partition on the drive as all the space was unallocated.

Phillip Corcoran · Mar 9, 2017

New, unused internal hard drives always ship with all space unallocated since the manufacturer has no way of knowing how many partitions the end user requires.

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