WD 1TB HDD showing up in Device Manager but not in My Copmuter

[Marko_Slb]

I've gone to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management

Then it pops up saying 'you must initialize a disk before logical disk manager can access it' and says disk 1 and gives me MBR and GPT options. What do I do?

 

[smorizio]

if the disk is new and blank put a standard mbr and format it as fat disk. formating as fat will let any version of windows see the disk. if your going to use windows 10 only you can use the newer gpt formating.

 

[Marko_Slb]

if the disk is new and blank put a standard mbr and format it as fat disk. formating as fat will let any version of windows see the disk. if your going to use windows 10 only you can use the newer gpt formating.

I'm using Windows 7. Yes it's a new blank disk, it's for installing all my games while OS runs off the SSD. So doing what you said will allow me to do this?

 

[smorizio]

yes it will set the disk settings to use the full space of the drive as one drive letter. format it as fat32 disk.

 

[Marko_Slb]

yes it will set the disk settings to use the full space of the drive as one drive letter. format it as fat32 disk.

Okay I set it to MBR, now it says it's onilne but still says 931.53GB unallocated, what do I do from here? I've been right clicking and see no option to format.

 

[smorizio]

click on the new disk..whe nit goes strips...click on format.

 

[Marko_Slb]

click on the new disk..whe nit goes strips...click on format.

I've clicked on it, it went to stripes, and I don't see anywhere to click to format. Sorry for being noob at this, first build.

 

[Marko_Slb]

Never mind I've done it. Thanks.

 

[Zoe_3_]

Never mind I've done it. Thanks.

I'm experiencing the same problem, please tell me how you altered the un-allocated partition as i have no options either?? Many thanks in advance

 

[Marko_Slb]

Never mind I've done it. Thanks.

I'm experiencing the same problem, please tell me how you altered the un-allocated partition as i have no options either?? Many thanks in advance

If I remember correctly (was so long ago) I right clicked the drive and clicked 'Mark Partition as Active', then a new window opens and I put it as MBR and NTFS. Hope this helps.