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Thread ID: 118548 2011-06-09 23:55:00 New Hard Drive Not Recognised lvlrhotshot (15773) Press F1
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1208236 2011-06-09 23:55:00 I recently purchased a new Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB HDD (ST2000DL003)
I installed it while the computer was off, and when i turned it on it installed the drivers for the hard drive but is not recognising it in windows explorer.
I restarted the computer and went into BIOS, the drive is there, but still not in explorer. Have I done something wrong? Any ideas?
lvlrhotshot (15773)
1208237 2011-06-10 00:02:00 Go into disk management and make sure it's initialized.

If you're not sure how to get there, quick way is to type diskmgmt.msc into the run box and hit enter.
wratterus (105)
1208238 2011-06-10 03:06:00 Is it formatted? gary67 (56)
1208239 2011-06-10 14:54:00 It's not formatted, mikebartnz (21)
1208240 2011-06-12 00:47:00 Yes you must go into disk management and then:

1) Initialize the disk
2) Partition the disk
3) Format the partition(s)
Agent_24 (57)
1208241 2011-06-12 08:19:00 If windows 7, go to search-> type in "computer management" -> open it -> go to disk management -> scroll down to your new device, right click it and enable it. Done. dpDesignz (15919)
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