New HDD, in BIOS & Disk Mngt, unallocated, can't assign volume letter/access

[heartflutter]

So I got a new 2TB HDD tonight. Plugged it in. Initialized it, told it to be a GPT HDD. Checked the drivers, refreshed "This PC", didn't see it show up. I've spent hours reading this site and that site. I've changed it from a GPT to a MBR and into a dynamic and this and that, I've unplugged my other HDDs, restarted 10 million times. Every single time it just attaches to a HDD as unallocated space that I can't USE. I can't assign in a drive letter, I can't re-format it. I can't turn it into a "new" volume at all. And I can't find anywhere that mentions this being a possible thing that happens. I have no idea how to "recover" this into a useable HDD, and the whole motivation for getting a new HDD was my others are full, so I can't exactly just format something else...

I'm pulling out my hair here and my brain is swimming.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model H97M-D3H
System Type x64-based PC .
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F4, 28-Jun-14
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
AMD Radeon (TM) R9 380 Series
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

[Disks]

Item Value
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model SanDisk SDSSDHII240G
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 4
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 223.57 GB (240,054,796,800 bytes)
Total Cylinders 29,185
Total Sectors 468,857,025
Total Tracks 7,442,175
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 100.00 MB (104,857,600 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 223.03 GB (239,477,981,184 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 105,906,176 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 450.00 MB (471,859,200 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 239,583,887,360 bytes

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model SAMSUNG HD502HJ
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 2
SCSI Bus 3
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,396,321,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 243,201
Total Sectors 3,907,024,065
Total Tracks 62,016,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 17,408 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 1.82 TB (2,000,264,681,984 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 134,235,136 bytes

Using diskpart to "clean" it and re-initialize it as a MBR seemingly has had no effect, either.

 

[marksavio]

i think you may have forgotten to right-click on that white space (not the grey area with your disk label) and select on "new volume or partition". the only thing you did was formatted and setup the MTB/GPT i guess.

 

[ArtPog]

For some unknown reason when you proceeded through the initialization of the HDD to create a GPT-partitioned disk (which is fine) you also created a Dynamic disk. That was a mistake. The drive should be a Basic Disk.

When you access Disk Management, right-click the Disk 0 block and select the option from the pop-up menu "Convert to Basic Disk". Then you should be able to go ahead to partition/format the drive.

 

[heartflutter]

Thank you both so much for replying!
Happy Holidays!