How to enable other HDD

[wwjoeyd]

Hello brothers

not sure how to word it, other than

How would I go about having my 2.5 Sata drive show up under "my computer"

Win7 does recognize that the drive is there & enabled, however I have no idea how to access it

 

[Shaun o]

Let me take a guess here. The 2.5" Sata drive is out of a laptop.
And you took it out and connected it to your tower pc ?

 

[sminlal]

If it's a new dive then the problem is likely that it hasn't been partitioned and formatted yet. If so, you need to start up Disk Management:

-> Start
-> Right-click "Computer"
-> Select "Manage"
-> In the Left pane of "Computer Management", click "Disk Management"

Locate your new disk in the LOWER portion of the middle pane - you may have to scroll down to find it. Right-click it, create a volume and format it.

 

[wwjoeyd]

Let me take a guess here. The 2.5" Sata drive is out of a laptop.
And you took it out and connected it to your tower pc ?

yes, with a 2.5 to 3.5 casing

 

[wwjoeyd]

Best answer selected by wwjoeyd.

 

[wwjoeyd]

If it's a new dive then the problem is likely that it hasn't been partitioned and formatted yet. If so, you need to start up Disk Management:

-> Start
-> Right-click "Computer"
-> Select "Manage"
-> In the Left pane of "Computer Management", click "Disk Management"

Locate your new disk in the LOWER portion of the middle pane - you may have to scroll down to find it. Right-click it, create a volume and format it.

Thank you,
I feel like a jackass, completely forgot to reformat it, (previously osx journaled )

 

[Mousemonkey]

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