I went into the BIOS and the hard drive did show up there.
I can feel the drive spinning and uninstalled it and plugged it back in but it still didn't show up in explorer.
Plugged it into different ports and it still didn't show up.
I have a 2 tb toshiba canvio hard drive that I bought a couple of months ago that was working fine. I recently lent it to a friend of mine because he was having issues with his macbook and apple support said he needed some extra space to do whatever it was he needed to do. Well when I got back...