Initializing my HDD

[judius]

Hello all, I'm new to Windows 7 and saw online that I'm supposed to initialize my HDD. My HDD shows up in Device Manager and when I click Disk Management no window pops up and there is only 1 blue box. No black (unallocated) sections.

The box with the blue line on top is C: and it is the primary partition. The only other box below it is my DVD drive.

When i click properties on the C: box it shows my Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD.


Is something wrong here?

 

[jsrudd]

Generally, when windows tells you to initialize the HDD all it wants you to do is set up a partition on it.

I'm not sure the problem that you're describing. Unless you have a hard drive installed that you cannot see in My Computer then you have nothing to worry about. Initializing a HDD is only required if it is a new drive. If it is the drive that windows is installed on then you should be fine.

 

[judius]

Thankyou for your reply. I just built the computer so I just wanted to make sure everything was good to go.

The only things I'm seeing on My Computer is the C: and D: drives so I guess everything is working as intended? Just wasn't sure if it was setup correctly.