windows not detecting my internal harddrive. only my sdd on c:

[LorenzoZamba]

z97-a motherboard, AHCI i have 1 ssd and 1 internal hard drive, my pc recognice both, and i can see them both in managment and all but when i go to "My computer" I only see my c:SSD which is where I install windows but the other harddisk doesn't show on e: or d: ... hope someone can help me, thank you. (my first pc build) everything working good except that.

 

[spadam_2000]

Right-click on "My Computer" (rather just computer in Win7), and Click "Manage". From there you can choose "Disk Management". You should see your drive here and will be unallocated. You must format it (or even initialize it first) then you should see it appear.

****Fail, I reread your statement and missed you going to management already.

Would your hard disk not be E:?

 

[LorenzoZamba]

thank you for fast response first of all.
ok I did that it give me the option mbr or gpt? don't know which one to use.
yes it says that I need you must initialize a disk before logical disk manager can access it.

 

[spadam_2000]

MBR, its the older, most common and compatible with many things. GPT is for disks larger than 2TB. So, if your disk is more than 2TB, use GPT, otherwise just use MBR. If you might run a separate OS on that drive, use MBR (if more than 2TB, partition it).

 

[LorenzoZamba]

its a 1tbhard disk. and I will only have windows in the ssd. not on this one.

 

[LorenzoZamba]

ok I did on mbr and it still says unallocated.

 

[LorenzoZamba]

now I see it on e: where I add it. the only thig is that it says 71.8mb reserved or 99.9 mb??

 

[LorenzoZamba]

it says system reserved e:

 

[LorenzoZamba]

hope someone can help me here. I think this is all messed up now.

 

[spadam_2000]

Yes, Windows will create a reserved partition for System Restore. Most likely it created it on your Hard Disk, instead of the SSD. It does that when you have two drives connected when you install Windows. However, you shouldn't modify that partition. There should be the unallocated space after that you format (creating the partition), which you will choose a format style. This you should choose NTFS.

 

[LorenzoZamba]

so should I format it now ?
I click format but it still says my capacity is 100 megabites?? do I continue and still go format it?

 

[spadam_2000]

It should be the rest of the 1TB, probably around 900GB. Could you send a screenshot of your disk management please?

 

[spadam_2000]

I will be on the road for the next few hours, so I apologize, I will be unavailable

 

[LorenzoZamba]

here it is

 

[LorenzoZamba]

ok so... just last thing .. should I format it?

 

[spadam_2000]

Ah yes, proceed to format: right-click on the unallocated part and format it to NTFS. It should select it all.

EDIT I think maybe when I said create a partition it messed us up by starting with a minumum 100MB