my wd hdd wont show up on my computer or disk management... what can i do to find it?? plz.. i jus bought it and its not readi

janie_808

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my WD Hard drive disk is brand new.. i plug it into my laptop and it wont read on my computer and i cant find it on disk management.. how do i get it to be readable.. i mean it should be okay because its brand new.. plz help.. do u think theres something wrong with my laptop? what do i have to do in order to make it readable because i need to transfer data onto it because im goin to reformat my laptop. plz help me
 
what is your laptop and how big (GB wise) is the HDD? Does the harddrive show up in the bios? If it does, put in you OS disc like your going to reinstall windows and format the WD drive, once that is done just exit the install without installing windows. 95% of the time it will show up in windows ready to use after that.

If its not showing up in the bios then you have bigger problems like the drive not working or its not hooked up right.