HDD Missing

[Fhantom99]

I added a Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB drive to my computer. It appears in Device Manager and BIOS. It appears as "Disk 1" in Computer Mgnt, but the volume does not appear. The drive does not appear in My Computer.

I cannot format or assign a letter to the secondary drive.

I updated the HDD Firmware w/ Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4CD.exe.

What do I need to do to access the 2TB drive? I appreciate the help and please only post solutions, not general comments.

System Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
MSI x58 Platinum SLI w/ BIOS v. 3.9 (2011-01-28)
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
6 GB RAM
Disk 0 - Seagate 150 GB ST3160023A-RK (Ultra ATA/100 w/ SATA adapter)
Disk 1 - Seagate 2TB ST2000DM001

 

[RealBeast]

Have you initialized the drive yet? You need to do that before it will format or accept a drive letter. That is also done in disk management.

 

[Fhantom99]

As stated, the drive is shown at the bottom (or lower part) of Computer Mgmt, but not at the top where Volume, Layout, Type, File System, and Status are displayed.

There is no option to format Disk 1 (ST2000MD001 - new drive).



UPDATE!!! (Here's the fix)

Click on the empty space to the right of the HDD installed. Right click on empty space and choose "New Simple Volume". Click next (x2), assign a drive letter (next), and perform a quick format (next).

Voilà!

 

[Fhantom99]

Have you initialized the drive yet? You need to do that before it will format or accept a drive letter. That is also done in disk management.

Thank you for your help!

 

[Fhantom99]

control panel/ admin tools/ computer managment/ disk management

find the disk there and you can format it.

Thank you for your help!

 

[RealBeast]

Click on the empty space to the right of the HDD installed. Right click on empty space and choose "New Simple Volume". Click next (x2), assign a drive letter (next), and perform a quick format (next). Voilà!

Right, you just reinitialized the drive, which then allowed you to format.