My new HDD is unallocated?

[paintboy131]

I have an SSD and an HDD. I just downloaded all the drivers and windows on my SSD and haven't used my HDD. It hasn't given me the option either. I tried restarting, unplugging and going to disk manager but I don't know what to do, please help

 

[ThatVietGuy]

So it doesn't appear in Disk Management? If it appears in Disk Management all you have to do is right click the drive and choose to make a new simple volume.

 

[Ace251091]

You have unallocated disk space. I'm giving you a wiki how article and a youtube video to help you. Both tutorials are for Win7/Win8.


WikiHow Article:

http://www.wikihow.com/Allocate-a-Drive-Letter

Youtube Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXJsAR5qsVo

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, paintboy131!

First, make sure you have activated the SATA port you connected your drive to in the BIOS.
While in disk management, you need to right-click on the drive where it says 'unallocated' and create a partition and format it with NTFS. You can also use the links that @Ace251091 mentioned.
If you don't have such an option in Disk management, you most probably have to initialize the HDD first.
Here are a couple of step-by-steps that might be useful as well

How to initialize an SSD/HDD on Windows: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1018
How to partition and format a hard drive on Windows: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865

Hope this helped! Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD