Question My hdd is showing up under device manager but i cannot add a path or even formatt it

[Rohorrim]

My 3tb hdd shows up in disk manager and the bios but i cannot access it for general storage use, all options within device manager are greyed out ( for that drive) but its saying active and healthy, the option to format the drive is even unavailable.

 

[Math Geek]

is this a new drive? did you initialize it in disk management already? this is what it sounds like to me, just needs to be initialized.

a screenshot of your disk management screen will help see what might be going on as well. would help a ton

 

[Razvan96]

These tricks may help you.
https://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/usb-drive-greyed-out-windows-10-4125.html

 

[popatim]

Which motherboard do you have?
Was the drive new when you installed it to this motherboard or was there stuff on it already?

 

[Rohorrim]

https://imgur.com/yMgPsvv

View: https://i.imgur.com/yMgPsvv.png

disk manager

https://imgur.com/xwhQvBH

View: https://i.imgur.com/xwhQvBH.png

disk manager no option to path or even format

https://imgur.com/kyx1Es4

View: https://imgur.com/kyx1Es4

- pc specs
msi B250 gaming pro carbon Mobo
Hard drive affected is a seagate barracuda 3tb

issue appeared when i rolled windows 10 back to windows 8.1, original tried my windows 7 disk but was missing the cd key.
Also the hard drive can be seen on bios but it wont appear in cmd.

Sorry i didn't list all of these in my original post, i was laying in bed on my phone with the shits haha.
TIA

 

[SkyNetRising]

Remove the drive from Microsoft storage spaces.
Why did you put it in there anyway?

 

[Rohorrim]

Remove the drive from Microsoft storage spaces.
Why did you put it in there anyway?

awesome ty man didn't realise it could automatically add it to MSS hence why didn't check, ty heaps mate.!