Local disk missing

[sreekiez]

after formatting eith WIN7 .. my western digital HDD's local disk is not being shown in my computer. PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!!! 300gb and its content missing!!

 

[Emerald]

are all the drivers for the controllers installed?

what motherboard are you using?

 

[xoiio]

Right click my computer, hit manage, go to disk management, you will likely see a hard drive which says "offline", right click it and initialize the disk. I've had this happen occasionally with flash drives and external hard drives.

edit: I'm assuming you are talking about a secondary drive, not a drive missing while you are installing windows, correct?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there sreekiez,

Is this your OS or secondary drive?

I would be nice if you start with just updating your MOBO drivers as Emerald suggested.
In case the issue persists, it would be nice to provide a screenshot of Disk Management. You may need to use some data recovery software: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

@xoiio Initializing could be data destructive.

Let us know how this goes,
D_Know_WD