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Vista won't recognize 1TB hard drive

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I installed a 1 TB hard drive (sata) the bios recognizes it but windows vista does not. I need to format and partition but cant find itin explorer or anywhere in windows.thanks

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I think the easiest way imo is to use a software such as partition magic and your drive will be up & running in no time

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Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management. That will show you all the drives, formatted and un-, that you have in your computer. You should be able to go from there.

Or go to Start -> Help & Support and type "format drive " into the box and follw the instructions.

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Whoops. Those are XP instructions. Do the "Help" thing in Vista instead.

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Check your drive manufacturers website. They should have some simple tools to allow you to format or partition it. You may have to load them on a bootable USB stick or floppy (but only if you have to).

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