Windows Not Recognising Hard Drive

Gundog48 · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:29

I have just built a mate's PC using a Crucial M4 64Gb with a Seagate Barracuda 500Gb storage drive. However, the HDD is not appearing in My Computer but it does appear in the BIOS. Any idea what's happening?

Beerbaron · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:33

have you checked in disk management?

Surveyor · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:35

Check Disk Management.

If it's a new drive you need to format it and allocate a drive letter before it shows in My Computer.

Right click on my computer, select manage, click on Disk Management.

Gundog48 · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:37

Aha! Yes, it appears as Disk 0 and is labelled Basic and Unallocated- what do I do? Damn, I need to learn how software works!

Gundog48 · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:38

Don't worry, I worked it out! Thanks for the help!