New HDD not being recognized

[akaZypher]

I just built a new gaming PC and got a Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDD as a second drive for games, it doesn't show in my bios or in my Disk Management section. Any help would be great, not sure if i just got a bad hard drive or what?

[Bombastinator]

50 minutes ago, akaZypher said:

I just built a new gaming PC and got a Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDD as a second drive for games, it doesn't show in my bios or in my Disk Management section. Any help would be great, not sure if i just got a bad hard drive or what?

Could be bad lots of things.  Bad drive, bad format on a good drive, bad sata port, bad bios flash.

probably dumb idea:

 One cheesy check that could possibly do nothing might be to throw in a Linux liveCD on a thumb drive and try booting off that.  Won’t help with the bios but Linux has some pretty low level drive stuff.  Kinda grasping at straws with that one.  Last resort maybe.  Windows used to have some low level drive stuff too but they hid everything and changed stuff so I got no clue where it might be or what it might be called.

[RageTester]

Drive might be not formatted at all or formatted the wrong way.

Enter command prompt,

diskpart

list volume

select volume number

format fs=NTFS quick

 

OR IF IT IS FORMATTED, BUT NO PARTITIONS HAVE BEEN CREATED:

diskpart

list disk

IF YOU FIND RIGHT SIZE DRIVE:

select disk number

create partition primary size=numberinmegabytes

IF YOU STILL CAN'T DETECT THE DRIVE, TRY LINUX LIVE CD/USB