formatted new WD TB HDD but wont show in File explorer

arnie2013 · 3 Aug 2015 at 03:07

Hi all

Today I installed my new western digital 2TB hard drive. I went into disk management and select to initialise to GPT, Formatted it like should which took about 1hour or so

when it had finished I restarted the computer and went into file explorer but the hard drive isn't their.

I can see it on the bootup screen, in BIOS and disk manager

my current computer setup is:

windows 10 pro 64bit
intel i5 3570k
16gb ddr3 corsair vengeance

2 x 1TB western digital hard drives ( black edition) as MBRS in a RAID config

1 x Samsung 840 pro 256gb SSD ( has my operating system installed on this)

hope somebody can help,

Chugz · 3 Aug 2015 at 03:19

Go back to Disk Management and inspect the partition. If it doesn't have a label or mount point, right click it and select "Change drive letter and paths".

arnie2013 · 3 Aug 2015 at 03:20

not sure howi delete this thread but iv sorted it now thank you

koolpc · 3 Aug 2015 at 04:50

arnie2013 said:
not sure howi delete this thread but iv sorted it now thank you

No need to delete thread. Just post how you fixed it just in case someone else is having the same issue as it would be useful.

bledd · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:09

koolpc said:
No need to delete thread. Just post how you fixed it just in case someone else is having the same issue as it would be useful.

I'll never understand why people want to close a thread in this manner :/

He probably needed to assign a drive letter in Disk Management.