My hard drive isn't showing up in storage!!!'

Mo1st Seabearz

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I just built a computer and I got windows 10 on my SSD. The problem is my 2tb hard drive isn't showing up in storage for me to do anything with it. It shows up in device manager but that's it. I have a seagate barracuda. Please help!!!
 
Solution
Hello... It's an OS security thing... Windows has "security" and you have to give permission to the OS as "administrator" to use/install additional Devices.

1) Right click Computer-Manage-storage-Disk Management.
2) Right click the graphics below for the NEW drive... (*complete partitioning and formatting for the drive if needed).
3) And "Mark Partition as Active"

* If the Drive already has DATA on it.... Just mark the "Partition active" So you don't lose any of it B )
Hello... It's an OS security thing... Windows has "security" and you have to give permission to the OS as "administrator" to use/install additional Devices.

1) Right click Computer-Manage-storage-Disk Management.
2) Right click the graphics below for the NEW drive... (*complete partitioning and formatting for the drive if needed).
3) And "Mark Partition as Active"

* If the Drive already has DATA on it.... Just mark the "Partition active" So you don't lose any of it B )
 
Solution


Open Disk Management.
Does it appear there? Probably.

You probably just have to Initialize it.
Then New Simple Volume, Format, give it a drive letter.