Unable to view hard drive in Windows 8.1 after using Gparted?

[smashedpumpkins]

I recently purchased an M.2 SSD for my laptop. After cloning the the hard drive to the SSD I wiped the original hard drive using Gparted. Strangely I'm unable to view the hard drive in Windows 8.1 but Gparted has no issue viewing the drive. I removed all partitions and left it unallocated. I also formatted it as NTFS but it's still not appearing in Windows. I would like to use it as a storage drive. I tried using the Windows partition manager as well as EaseUS partition manager but it's not finding the drive.

Am I missing something obvious here? Thank you.

 

[madmatt30]

What drive exactly ??
Is it shown in disk management at all??
Have you assigned it a drive letter??
Won't show up until you do.

 

[reedo_43]

And did you assign it a drive letter?

 

[reedo_43]

OOps my bad...

 

[madmatt30]

^ ninja edit 😉

 

[smashedpumpkins]

What drive exactly ??
Is it shown in disk management at all??
Have you assigned it a drive letter??
Won't show up until you do.

It's a Western Digital 1TB 5400 WD10JPVX. It's not displayed in disk management so I can't assign a letter or do anything in Windows.

 

[madmatt30]

Try a format using minitool partition wizard.
Delete all partitions ,reformat single NTFS partition & assign a drive letter with this program the reboot.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

[smashedpumpkins]

Try a format using minitool partition wizard.
Delete all partitions ,reformat single NTFS partition & assign a drive letter with this program the reboot.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Thanks though this tool was unable to detect the disk as well. Do I need to format it in some way on Gparted?

 

[smashedpumpkins]

Well formatting as FAT32 in gparted worked.