Don't forget to bring a towel
I bought a 2TB WD HD today, and it doesn't show up in 'My Computer' in Windows 7. I have checked the device manager and the drive shows up in there as working normally. I have unchecked the 'hide empty drives' option in the folder options, but that hasn't made any difference.
I went into the Control Panel/Administrative tools/Computer management/disk management and my new drive doesn't show up in there.
It does show up as a drive in the BIOS.
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Do you still have to fdisk and format hard drives these days for them to appear in windows?
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Rocket Surgeon
Right Click > Properties on the drive in Device Manager, go to the Volume tab and press populate, screenshot the results.
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Have you run the installation software from WD? Go here and select your hard drive model and follow the prompts: http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?wdc_lang=en
There are other ways around it, but the manufacturers software is usually the easiest unless you're an advanced user. This will show you the correct installation steps and how to format so that Windows can 'see' the drive.
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Your a sMACOriginally Posted by Rockbuddy
Don't forget to bring a towel
Here it is.
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Right click on "My Computer" and select manage. Go to disk management. You should see the new disk there.
Right click on it to initialize the disk, and then again to create a partition, and then format it.
Don't forget to bring a towel
I'll give that a go.
My new drive doesn't show up on there. Every other drive does show up, however.
BogOff-Cant you see I'm busy?
Yep, that's the one!
Remember to assign a friendly drive letter and format it using NTFS.
Rocket Surgeon
You probably won't see the drive in the top part of the disk management window, but in the lower part will be "disk 2", but with no blue/purple bars to the right.
Right click on the "Disk 2" and do new volume/initialize as per P.Dath's post.
Have attached a screeny to show where I mean.
Ciao Marco
Don't forget to bring a towel
Do I want to create a striped volume or a spanned volume? Is there any significant advantage of formatting it in NTFS instead of FAT32, because I'm also going to be using Linux which I understand is not NTFS compatible. However, this drive is simply a backup drive, so all my music/movies will be stored on the external FAT32 drive, so I don't really need this drive to be Linux compatible.
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
Depends what you want to do and how you want to do it
Here's a couple of links that may help: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=968169
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...october01.mspx
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Rocket Surgeon
Simple, and NTFS (I beleive fat32 has a 2g/4g file size limit which is bad for storing your legal backups of HD movies and Linux Iso's).
Linux can use NTFS fineThe data drives in my server are all ntfs (incase I got back to the dark side)
Ciao Marco
Don't forget to bring a towel
Thanks for your help everyone, I've gotten the drive to format at the moment with NTFS.
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