New Hard Drive on BIOS, but not in Win 8 “This PC”

[budparker]

Toshiba Satellite PP875-S7102 Laptop, Intel Quad Core I7 2.4GHz, 8GB Ram.

A little history: The factory hard drive finally bit the dust. It had a physical dilemma that mandated its replacement. Oh, crap. There goes all that data. . . The Toshiba Laptop has two internal drive ports, 2.5”. I bought two drives. An SSD SanDisk for the operating system and so forth, and a 1T WD 2.5” internal drive. I installed both and finally got Windows 8.1 installed on this beast.

After finally getting the laptop running I could see both drives in the BIOS. One in Slot One and the other in Slot Two. However, after about 150ish updates to Windows I noticed that I could “see” the SSD drive, but not the WD 1T drive in “My PC.”

My question; what can I do to rectify this dilemma? It would be wonderful to be able to install all my applications to this huge internal drive.

Let me say a big “Thank You” up front for bothering to help this lost soul navigating through Hardware Land…

 

[USAFRet]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

 

[budparker]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

"Initialize Disk"
"Offline"
"Properties"
& "Help"

 

[USAFRet]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

"Initialize Disk"
"Offline"
"Properties"
& "Help"

Initialize is what you want.
After that, Format, and give it a drive letter.

 

[budparker]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

"Initialize Disk"
"Offline"
"Properties"
& "Help"

Initialize is what you want.
After that, Format, and give it a drive letter.

I initialized. Now, do I "Convert to Dynamic Disk" or "Convert to MBR Disk?"

 

[USAFRet]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

"Initialize Disk"
"Offline"
"Properties"
& "Help"

Initialize is what you want.
After that, Format, and give it a drive letter.

I initialized. Now, do I "Convert to Dynamic Disk" or "Convert to MBR Disk?"

"Convert to MBR Disk"
This

 

[budparker]

Open Disk Management
Does it appear there? Probably.
In the bottom portion, right click
What options does it give you?

"Initialize Disk"
"Offline"
"Properties"
& "Help"

Initialize is what you want.
After that, Format, and give it a drive letter.

I initialized. Now, do I "Convert to Dynamic Disk" or "Convert to MBR Disk?"

"Convert to MBR Disk"
This

You mentioned giving it a drive letter. . . "Right Click" has no function for that. Now it has,
Convert to Dynamic Disk
Convert to GPT Disk
Properties

By the way, thanks for the help...

 

[xoiio]

Convert to dynamic disk, then you can assign a drive letter and path

 

[budparker]

Convert to dynamic disk, then you can assign a drive letter and path

It cautions that if I convert to Dynamic Disk I will Not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on that disk. Am I sure I want to continue? [I think it is OK, but thought I had better ask...]

 

[xoiio]

You are using that drive for storage, correct?

 

[budparker]

You are using that drive for storage, correct?

Yes, the Op System is on a SSD drive.

 

[budparker]

Although I may place some of the installed software on that drive that Win 8 will run...

 

[xoiio]

Ahh, it's probably detecting those files, I'm not sure if they will stick around, but converting to a dynamic disk is how you will get it to be usable as storage.

 

[budparker]

Ahh, it's probably detecting those files, I'm not sure if they will stick around, but converting to a dynamic disk is how you will get it to be usable as storage.

Ok, I did. Two things now;

1. How do I Name the drive other than drive 0, and
2. Do I need to reboot in order to see the drive listed on "My Computer?"

 

[xoiio]

Now you right click it on the top, and change drive letter and paths, then you add one and pick a letter you like, after that it willshow up instantly