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so i recently built my first computer and here's my problem, the 2 hard drives i have in it are showing they all of their space in unallocated and there is not drive letter for with either one. disk 1 in the picture is a new 2 tb wd black and disk 0 is a 3tb wd green and the 2tb  of unallocated space is 2tb of mainly media. basically how do i get these drives to have letters (when i right click either drive the only available options are new simple volume..., properties, and help) i have a feeling i can get it to do what i want if i use the new simple volume wizard but will that have any effect on the 2tb of information i have on disk 0

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Try formatting the drive, that may help.

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You need to format drives. Most drives come in a non-formatted state. Right click on one of the "allocated" areas, click on Simple Volume, and follow the instructions.

 

Format as NTFS.

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I'm confused as to why you said "will that have any effect on my 2TB of information?" According to the screenshot, the hard drive is completely non-formatted.

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will that have any effect on the 2tb of information i have on disk 0

 

Are you sure you had data in drive 0?  because it looks like is partitioned, but does not contain any data right now.   Maybe your data is in Drive 2 ?

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alright so i formatted the new drive but i am certain that the dive 0 has information on it and i don't want to loose most of it. it was a wd green that was previously being used externally on my laptop for extra storage. any help would be appreciated what if i go through the new volume wizard and chose not to format?

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I would recommend Testdisk, I just used that program (it's free) to recover the data from a corrupt USB drive for a client.

 

Or, if you are prefer a GUI for the program, I have used Recuva before and usually worked.

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