Drive is showing up in BIOS and W10 Disk Management but I can't see it in my computer?

MarkJr · 31 Jan 2017 at 01:46

I can't make a new path or rename the drive, I can only make a simple volume.

HazardO · 31 Jan 2017 at 10:08

The drive will need an NTFS partition on it if it hasn't already got one, and you need to assign a drive letter to it in Disk management.

Legend · 31 Jan 2017 at 11:53

Is the drive allocated? What does it say exactly in Disk Management?

MarkJr · 31 Jan 2017 at 13:00

Legend said:
Is the drive allocated? What does it say exactly in Disk Management?

not home just now, but from what I can remember it was just unallocated space, and I couldn't give it a drive letter, I could only create a simple volume on it.

Zefan · 31 Jan 2017 at 13:06

You need to create the simple volume before you can use it. At the moment it's just "Raw" unformatted disk space.

Legend · 31 Jan 2017 at 13:40

MarkJr said:
not home just now, but from what I can remember it was just unallocated space, and I couldn't give it a drive letter, I could only create a simple volume on it.

Yeah that's what you need to do, then you will be able to use it. You give it a drive letter when you create the simple volume and it then becomes allocated.

MarkJr · 31 Jan 2017 at 16:07

Legend said:
Yeah that's what you need to do, then you will be able to use it. You give it a drive letter when you create the simple volume and it then becomes allocated.

I see, never had to do that before with a hard drive, thanks for the help guys!