Hard drive listed as CD drive... HELP!!!

[johnniehrvy]

Hello everyone… After getting some great tips on the forums, I built myself a great pc thank you all for the tips.

The pc is running great, but I have run into a problem that has me going crazy…
I bought and WD 1.5 terabyte HD to going along with the Samsung 1.0 terabyte I install with the build. For some reason the WD hard drive shows up as CD rom drive when I click the icon it says insert disc. When I go to my device manager, it shows up as storage device, I right click on it and it gives me no option to format it (I figured if I could format it this would solve the problem).

Please someone help me solve this problem before it drives me crazy… Thank you…

 

[PhilFrisbie]

Just to be clear, this is an internal drive, or external? If internal, have you gone into the BIOS to make sure it is not set up as a CD/DVD drive?

 

[pjmelect]

I think that you are confusing yourself. Go to Disk management and partition and format the drive.

 

[johnniehrvy]

Internal

 

[johnniehrvy]

In disk managment it shows up as cd drive.

 

[johnniehrvy]

Actually in disk managment it shows up as hard drive and cd drive

 

[pjmelect]

Actually in disk managment it shows up as hard drive and cd drive

How can it do that? I have never seen that before, a screen shot would be nice. What hapens when you try to partition and format it in disk management?