Accessing 2TB Drive

DA8GizMo · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:08

Hi all.
I just picked myself up a Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive.
I've got it in a USB caddy at the mo but plan to add it internally once I know it's all working fine.
I'm running Windows 7 x64 Pro
I went into diskmgmt and I got the little window popup about mbr and gpt.
Following the recomendation for large drives I selected gpt.
I then formatted the drive and created a simple volume. (I called it BIG DISK)
So now my diskmgmt looks like this..

All looks good, I thought.
But when I go into My Computer to actually access the disk or try to put data on it, it doesn't appear..

And If I right click on the drive in diskmgmt the Open and Explore options are greyed out.

Is there a simple step that I've missed here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Giz

wonko · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:15

Looks like you didn't assign a drive letter when you formatted it? You should be able to do that via disk management.

panyan · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:17

hmmm, thats curious, first, try a restart i'd say and then see if its still happening

BTW, restart it all, pc and external

DA8GizMo · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:48

wonko said:
Looks like you didn't assign a drive letter when you formatted it? You should be able to do that via disk management.

Thanks Wonko!
That did the trick.
I knew it had to be something simple.

Thanks again.

Giz

wonko · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:28

Happy to help! Your next problem is what to fill it with