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Hard drive broken?

mikeman902
By mikeman902
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I have a Wester Digital 1TB in my build and it won't show up, everything is plugged in right I already checked. When I look in my samsung magician software it says its unallocated? What's this mean and is it broken?

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it sounds like the drive is not initialized and partitioned/formatted.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1227647/how-to-initialize-and-format-a-new-disk-for-use-in-windows

skip down to the "Or you can do it in computer management:" part and follow those steps.

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