HDD shown in Device Manager as working properly, but doesn't appear in Windows Explorer or under My

Marine-RX179 · 19 Feb 2011 at 05:38

So...for a new build, which has a Crucial C300 64GB as boot driver (on SATA III), and a Samsung F4 2TB as storage on SATA II, but the Samsung HDD doesn't appear as "D:" and I only see the Crucial C300 and the optical drive, despite it is shown under disk drive in device manager.

Is it because I haven't made a new partition for the Samsung HDD, so it's not showing up under Windows Explorer/My Computer?

vanandjuanunited · 19 Feb 2011 at 05:42

Assuming its got no data. Use disk manager to format it then if necessary import or activate it.

go to control panel / admin tools / comp management

Marine-RX179 · 19 Feb 2011 at 14:30

vanandjuanunited said:
Assuming its got no data. Use disk manager to format it then if necessary import or activate it.

go to control panel / admin tools / comp management

I think the reason that the Samsung HDD is not shown is most probably because it has not been partitioned...so what's the simplest way for me to do that? Also, I can't find the dish manager you mentioned...I'm using Windows 7 64-bit btw.

Surveyor · 19 Feb 2011 at 15:01

Open the start menu.

In the search box type diskmgmt.msc

Just click the file to open the tool.

Marine-RX179 · 19 Feb 2011 at 15:34

Yay, got the Samsung HDD working now. Thanks for the help.

Surveyor · 20 Feb 2011 at 00:08

Glad you got it sorted

kristmace · 20 Feb 2011 at 00:40

Had same prob last week. Forgot about disc manager prog so booted via windows 7 CD to format. Worked the same.