New HDD icon is different from all the others

[Tidsuo]

So I bought a new Western Digital Black 2TB recently. I formatted it and it has a file system of NTFS but it looks completely different in "My Computer" than all the other drives that are formatted the same. What does it mean?

Here's an image of all my drives.

I am aware of why the C: drive icon what it is, just not why D: is different from E: and F: and what it means.

Thanks

 

[weilin]

D: looks like the icon for a removable drive. May just be the new Icon for external HDDs.

 

[Tidsuo]

Oh, forgot to mention its an internal harddrive. Sorry about that.

 

[Karadjgne]

May depend on how the new 2Tb is setup. The older smaller drives are probably MBR (master boot record) and because of its size and 'newness' the 2Tb is probably setup as GPT (GUID partition table) instead.

It may (hopefully not) be the icon if you initialized the hdd as a dynamic Drive not basic partition, before format

 

[Tidsuo]

I initialized the drive as MBR with a simple volume. How would I got about initializing it?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Tidsuo,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive.
Can you provide a screenshot of Disk Management and how the HDD appears over there?

Apart from that, you can attach the HDD to a different port. In case your OS drive is to port 0, attach this one to port 1.
In case the issue persists, you can delete the partitions and reformat the drive.(keep in mind to back up all the data stored on it). You have partitioned and formatted the drive the following way right? http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=KHTSRh

I guess it will not hurt to test the drive with WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=CmxKg5

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[Tidsuo]

I followed the instructions to reformat the drive, when I reformatted the drive I decided to select a different drive letter (G: ) and saw that the icon changed. I looked up if there were any drive letters assigned to default devices, there were, to quote " Drive letter D: or E: is often assigned to CD-ROM or DVD drives.".
So that explained why the drive looked the way it did.

Thanks for the help everyone, and the tools looked to be very useful that you suggested D_Know_WD!

 

[D_Know_WD]

It's great that you've sorted this out.

Yeah, the DLG tool is an useful one. It is always a good idea to test the drive from time to time in order to keep an eye on its health status.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD