Can't detect HDD

tcprix · Apr 28, 2018

I recently built my first pc and I have a 1TB HDD and 500GB SSD. In the BIOS it showed both of them listed and of course used the SSD for the booting device. Got Windows all installed and in File Explorer under This PC I'm not seeing the HDD listed as a drive. When I go to Device Manager I see it listed as well as in the BIOS but file explorer is not seeing it as a hard drive. Any tips? (and yes SATA cable is plugged into it). A friend mentioned I may have to enable the SATA port in BIOS but my optical drive is showing up and I didn't have to enable that one.

This is my build: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/f42cq4

ss202sl · Apr 28, 2018

did you create a partition on the drive? A picture of drive management would help.

tcprix · Apr 28, 2018

ss202sl :

Hey sorry I'm pretty new to all of this and don't really even know what a partition is. When I open Drive Management there is a pop up I'm wondering if that is what I need to do there and just click ok? It looks like it's not active with the 'X' by it. Here is a screen shot of Drive Management.

https://gyazo.com/179af5e572e41a9e51e2ffa42e942814

ss202sl · Apr 28, 2018

You need to initialize it. Then right-click on the drive and create a partition - go through the wizard and it will create the partition and assign a drive letter. Then it will show up

tcprix · Apr 28, 2018

ss202sl :

EDIT: I figured it out, thanks so much for your help

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