WD 500GB Drive isn't recognized by Windows

[adambom]

So I built my first computer and my Caviar Black hard drive is recognized by BIOS but not by Windows 7. Does anyone know why?

 

[dudewitbow]

the that drive the only drive in there?

 

[adambom]

i have a corsair ssd as my boot drive

 

[dudewitbow]

is the bios settings for the drives on achi?

 

[dudewitbow]

its a hard drive setting found in the bios.

 

[adambom]

what's that?

 

[adambom]

no i dont think so. but honestly cant find that

 

[dudewitbow]

there should be a setting that usually is default labeled "IDE" which should be changed to ACHI, but before doing so, there is a registry edit you will have to do to avoid having to reinstall windows again probably to set it to ACHI.

 

[adambom]

yeah its set to ACHI

 

[dudewitbow]

is that drive formatted? if not

right click My computer>Manage>disc management


also try using the western digital advanced formatting tool if its still not working.

 

[adambom]

That got it! haha thank you!

 

[adambom]

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