HDD unrecognised in "This PC" section

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alekkusufuyu

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I took a hard drive from my grandparent's old computer, which still worked fine, and put it in my new one to use there. After installing, the BIOS showed it as ST(bunch of numbers), but wouldn't let me boot from it. When I started up the computer from my current SSD, it didn't show the drive in the This PC section. I read that I should check the diskmgmt.msc to format it, and its visible there, but I'm unable to format it or assign a path, it just says, "The system cannot find the file specified." It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, 320gb. The Virtual Disk Manager says it's Healthy, but in the RAW format instead of NTFS. Also, the hard drive still has a little amount of things on it, but the Disk Manager shows it as completely empty. Any ideas? I can provide more details
 
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1. Well, if that Seagate HDD from your "grandparent's old computer" would have booted to an OS after you installed it in your "new" PC, you could have chalked that up to a minor miracle, capiche?

2. Anyway, assuming the Seagate is non-defective and is connected to your system as a SECONDARY drive and you're able to boot to your normal boot drive, the Seagate should be detected and you should be able to access any data on it (should that be your intention) or partition/format the drive to use in your system for storage, backups, etc.

3. Assuming the Seagate is at the least detected in your system (which it seems to be) you should check it out with Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic program to make sure you have a non-defective drive on your...
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1. Well, if that Seagate HDD from your "grandparent's old computer" would have booted to an OS after you installed it in your "new" PC, you could have chalked that up to a minor miracle, capiche?

2. Anyway, assuming the Seagate is non-defective and is connected to your system as a SECONDARY drive and you're able to boot to your normal boot drive, the Seagate should be detected and you should be able to access any data on it (should that be your intention) or partition/format the drive to use in your system for storage, backups, etc.

3. Assuming the Seagate is at the least detected in your system (which it seems to be) you should check it out with Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic program to make sure you have a non-defective drive on your hands.
 
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