Add new 1 TB HDD and it was not detected.

[RabbitDen]

Recently upgraded desktop to Windows 10 with 1 SSD and 1TB WD Blue HDD. I then added another 1 TB WD Blue connected to the same power cable to the other SATA drives. Windows 10 started up okay but the new drive was not detected. Can anyone see the issue here. Cheers.

 

[xoiio]

Does it show in disk management?

 

[corroded]

You need to "Initialize" it from Disk Management

 

[RabbitDen]

You need to "Initialize" it from Disk Management

How do you initialize inDisk Management when you can't see the new HDD? Cheers.

 

[corroded]

Disk Management will pop up with the "suggestion" automatically once it "sees" an un-initialized disk"

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, RabbitDen!

I'm sorry to hear about your connectivity issues with your second WD Blue! I'd recommend you to try using a different SATA cable and plugging it to a different SATA port. I'd also advise you to check if it's recognized in BIOS and Device Manager.
When going into Disk Management, you can try clicking on 'Rescan Disks', hopefully, this would make the secondary HDD pop up. Another thing that might help you recognize it is resetting BIOS, but you'd need to reconfigure all the settings afterward because it would get them back to factory defaults. Here are a couple of methods you can use: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS

As for initializing & formatting the drive through Disk management, you can refer to these tutorials from our knowledge base.
Step 1: Initializing the HDD - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=TBnnzH
Step 2: Partitioning & Formatting it - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=cZ6tLw

Hope this was helpful. Keep us posted!
SuperSoph_WD