new hard drive showing in bios but not in windows.

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 16:40

So in my green dragon build z77 ud3h with 3750k and 8gb ram with win 7 pro. Just slotted in new WD 2TB Green Desktop Drive 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive. It shows up in bios but not in windows. Plugged it in to sata 3 with sata 3 cable. How to fix that please? ta

djabs786 · 5 Dec 2012 at 16:52

Does it appear in Disk Management?

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 16:54

djabs786 said:
Does it appear in Disk Management?

yes in its full proper long name!

apeksdiver · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:02

Have you formatted it using disk management?

apeksdiver · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:05

This may help
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/15/how-to-configure-a-new-hard-drive-in-windows-7/
has the disk been initialised?

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:15

apeksdiver said:
This may help
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/15/how-to-configure-a-new-hard-drive-in-windows-7/
has the disk been initialised?

Disk has not been intialised and formatted it using disk management. how do i do both please? ta

Swordfish · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:17

When you run disk management you should get a pop up asking you to initialise disk and then format it.

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:18

In Disk Management it just shows as disk 1 with 1863 GB, unallocated... What next pls? (there are no pop ups when running Disk management) ta

Philip Perfect · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:50

It's all explained in the link given by Arek, but you just need to right-click on the bar for your new disk at the bottom of the Disk Management window, and choose the initialise disk option.

When this has been done, you right click on the same bar and choose format. You'll then be able to select a drive letter, and after that, the disk will appear in Windows Explorer.

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 17:53

Philip Perfect said:
It's all explained in the link given by Arek, but you just need to right-click on the bar for your new disk at the bottom of the Disk Management window, and choose the initialise disk option.

When this has been done, you right click on the same bar and choose format. You'll then be able to select a drive letter, and after that, the disk will appear in Windows Explorer.

Hi, when I right-click on the bar for my new disk at the bottom of the Disk Management window, there is no option to format or initialise. ?!? (confusioN)

[beautiful landscape pics you got Philip P

Swordfish · 5 Dec 2012 at 18:00

Right click on the section on the left where the drive details are.

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 18:03

Swordfish said:
Right click on the section on the left where the drive details are.

tHEN? please continue. the suspense is unbearable.

Swordfish · 5 Dec 2012 at 19:41

As has been mentioned before this has all the info you need.

arekgreenman888 · 5 Dec 2012 at 23:57

Swordfish said:
As has been mentioned before this has all the info you need.

But what if there is NO option to initialise disk when I right click on new disk? This is where am at now!

Also partition magic 8 dont work saying that it is not compatible with windows 7 I have. WHY?!?!?

grn · 7 Dec 2012 at 04:00

Been a while since I built from scratch, but one solution I think, is to disconnect all drives bar the one that needs initialised. Put your Windows install CD in the CD drive and set the system to boot from CD. If I remember correctly, the start of the install will initialise and format the disk

arekgreenman888 · 7 Dec 2012 at 10:24

grn said:
Been a while since I built from scratch, but one solution I think, is to disconnect all drives bar the one that needs initialised. Put your Windows install CD in the CD drive and set the system to boot from CD. If I remember correctly, the start of the install will initialise and format the disk

Just what I did and what worked. THanks grn. Blesses

grn · 7 Dec 2012 at 13:28

arekgreenman888 said:
Just what I did and what worked. THanks grn. Blesses

Glad you got it sorted.