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[SOLVED] Unallocated hard drive

cscraigsmith046

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Nov 11, 2018
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So i have a new hard drive, a 1TB HDD, when i open up disk manager it appears unallocated, i have tried right clicking the hard drive panel, and cannot format the drive, any help on this?
 
Solution


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Solution


In Disk Manager, right click all the way over on the left, in the smaller square.
What appears?