How do you set a device to be read as a local disk on your PC?

[Pizzapeter1998]

Hi,
Ive done this before around a year ago and all was fine. Im replacing my old internal Hard Drive for my new 3TB one. I have a SATA to USB adapter so I can read off one of them externally however using the adapter it set the hard drive to a device. I was wondering how do I change it from being a device to a local disk e.g "C:"? The PC registers it as a Disk in the device management but within disk management it doesn't detect it. My OS is Windows 10 64-bit

UPDATE: Found out it was a faulty adapter which wasn't providing enough power to the hard drive

Here is what I am seeing:

https://gyazo.com/9ccf3d6a48495afa2dd74a79a92b440a
https://gyazo.com/bf632a77ba4f657873448586c1eaf9f5
https://gyazo.com/6069a56e51e9a211b8295a6f3b40e93d
https://gyazo.com/8e17647073b74e0cb4230329ff3ff65f

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, Pizzapeter1998!

Usually, you should be able to perform initializing, partitioning & formatting through Disk Management. This way your external HDD is being assigned with a drive letter, which makes it accessible through Windows Explorer (This PC). For some reason, Disk Management doesn't give you this option, so I'd recommend you to try executing the same procedure though DiskPart instead.
Keep in mind that this procedure will erase everything that you have on the HDD, so make sure you have a backup of the essential data stored on it.
Here are some links you might find useful:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows7/AdminTips/Miscellaneous/HowtowipeaharddriveusingDiskpartandFormat.html
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Good luck! Hope these help you!
SuperSoph_WD