How to format an HDD

[Axomite]

I just built my computer, and I am currently running everything off of a 240 GB SSD, but I also have a 2TB HDD for mass storage, however it is not showing up in the control panel, though it does come up in the Bios. I was told I need to format the HDD in order for it to be usable, however I have no idea how. If someone could please tell me, that'd help very much. 

 

(on a side note, I'd like to ask, does dual SLI requires setting up, or the SLI Bridge does all the work, and I can run dual graphics cards as easy as that?)

[Moosie]

Go to start and search for "Create and format hard disk partitions"

 

At the bottom, there should be a line (probably labeled "Disk 1") with the right size and no partitions (you can tell because there is no blue line like there is for your boot drive)

Right click the unallocated space (to the left of the "disk 1" box) and select "new simple partition."

Go through the wizard, selecting NTFS as the file system, and the entire capacity of the drive. This will give you a 2TB for use in windows!

[Axomite]

Go to start and search for "Create and format hard disk partitions"

 

At the bottom, there should be a line (probably labeled "Disk 1") with the right size and no partitions (you can tell because there is no blue line like there is for your boot drive)

Right click the unallocated space (to the left of the "disk 1" box) and select "new simple partition."

Go through the wizard, selecting NTFS as the file system, and the entire capacity of the drive. This will give you a 2TB for use in windows!

There is nothing that says "new simple partition" when I right click on it. There is "new simple volume" would that help? Also, it says I only have 1862.89 GB rather then the full 2TB. Is that normal?

[Moosie]

As for SLI, go to the Nvidia control panel > Set SLI and PhysX configuration > Enable SLI technology

[mkessler9]

There is nothing that says "new simple partition" when I right click on it. There is "new simple volume" would that help? Also, it says I only have 1862.89 GB rather then the full 2TB. Is that normal?

Yes. For any storage device about 7% of it is just nothing. As Linus says

[Moosie]

There is nothing that says "new simple partition" when I right click on it. There is "new simple volume" would that help? Also, it says I only have 1862.89 GB rather then the full 2TB. Is that normal?

That's what I meant.

And yeah, totally normal. Hard drives are advertised using decimal (1000 KB per MB), but the windows file system reads them in binary (1024 KiB per MiB). The size difference is because of this.

[Axomite]

That's what I meant.

And yeah, totally normal. Hard drives are advertised using decimal (1000 KB per MB), but the windows file system reads them in binary (1024 KiB per MiB). The size difference is because of this.

YES! IT ALL WORKED! THANK YOU SO MUCH! OH YOU ARE AMAZEBALLS! Thank you.

[Moosie]

YES! IT ALL WORKED! THANK YOU SO MUCH! OH YOU ARE AMAZEBALLS! Thank you.

 

No problem!

[geogga]

You could also search disk management and do it too.