Wiped my HDD with DBAN, now it doesnt show up in windows

[jackjamesloth]

I recently bought a SDD and installed windows on it so I thought I'd wipe my old hard drive since it was pretty much full and filled with crap I don't need anymore. I used DBAN to wipe it but now it doesn't show up under My Computer. It does however show up in device manager. Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[clutchc]

Go to Windows Disk Management and initialize it.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there jackjamesloth,

I would totally agree with clutchc. You need to go to Disk Management -> Initialize -> Partition & Format.
Here are some tutorials on how to do that.

Initialize: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=uPwiL4
Partition & Format: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=WIFdIy

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD