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Bare with me here as i'm pretty new, but where can i find disk management? lol

It's in computer management.  If in W8, right click the start button!

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Okay so very recently built my computer like a week ago. first build. asus maximus vii motherboard, intel i7-4770k cpu, evga gtx 780 gpu, corsair vengeance ram 16gb, samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd. running windows 8.1 etc etc basically its all working perfectly except for the new western digital black 1tb HDD i got. I thought at first it was defective so i sent the original in and got a brand new one. i can see it in the boot options on the bios and i enabled it, but seems to still not be showing up once i boot up. I tried changing the cables around and searched around the bios but its still not showing up. help please?

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Yea this happend to me with the WD Black Drives, go into Disk manager on windows and enable it

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Okay so very recently built my computer like a week ago. first build. asus maximus vii motherboard, intel i7-4770k cpu, evga gtx 780 gpu, corsair vengeance ram 16gb, samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd. running windows 8.1 etc etc basically its all working perfectly except for the new western digital black 1tb HDD i got. I thought at first it was defective so i sent the original in and got a brand new one. i can see it in the boot options on the bios and i enabled it, but seems to still not be showing up once i boot up. I tried changing the cables around and searched around the bios but its still not showing up. help please?

Do you have both power and data pluged in?

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Have you gone into Disk Management to initialize the hdd?

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It probably isn't initialized.  Go to disk management!  

Bare with me here as i'm pretty new, but where can i find disk management? lol

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Do you have both power and data pluged in?

yes I do haha

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Bare with me here as i'm pretty new, but where can i find disk management? lol

It's in computer management.  If in W8, right click the start button!

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Thanks Ethan and William! Happy to finally say it's complete  ;)

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Okay so very recently built my computer like a week ago. first build. asus maximus vii motherboard, intel i7-4770k cpu, evga gtx 780 gpu, corsair vengeance ram 16gb, samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd. running windows 8.1 etc etc basically its all working perfectly except for the new western digital black 1tb HDD i got. I thought at first it was defective so i sent the original in and got a brand new one. i can see it in the boot options on the bios and i enabled it, but seems to still not be showing up once i boot up. I tried changing the cables around and searched around the bios but its still not showing up. help please?

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