New Hard Drive How Do I Activate It

gremlin999

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Hey all,

I got a new 2 TB hard drive and I have put it in and i go to device management and it is there. When I click computer i cant see it where my drives should be.

I looked on the internet and people said somthing about disk managment so I typed it in and it doesnt seem to be there....

Anyones help is appriciated
 
Read WyomingKnott's sticky at the top of this forum here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system

Pay attention to his Step 5. It will tell you how to use Disk Management to Partition and Format the new HDD, On newer versions of Windows, these two steps are combined into one called Initialize the Disk or Create New Simple Volume.

To reach Disk Management do this sequence: Click on Start at lower left, then Control Panel ... Administrative Tools ... Computer Management and choose Disk Management in the left menu. You will use the LOWER RIGHT panel for your task. Note that it SCROLLS so you can see all it contains.
 
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I said i cant see it on disk management. I tried to install the drivers and so i did. I restarted my and it wouldnt load so it then said "do you want to restore your pc" so i did but it didnt restore anything

a thing I would of thought would of taken a matter of a few minutes seems to take an eternity
 
You say it is showing in Device Manager, but not in Disk Management. That is impossible.

Why do you think it is showing in Device Manager? What does it say there?

Back in Disk Management, remember that I said you MUST look in the LOWER RIGHT pane, and you may have to SCROLL that pane to see the new HDD. Are you sure you can't see it there?
 
I got a western digital drive an I can see it in device manager and when I go to disk management I can't see it . I also just I talked some drivers and my pc wont even start .....
 
Hey, I have a picture of it being shows in device manager and one of it not being shows in disk manager

Device Manager- http://postimg.org/image/smuukfpzb/

Disk Manager- http://postimg.org/image/mwv7x2ej1/


I don't know why it shows it on one and not the other is there somthing I need to do with my disk management