HELP! HDD showing up in device manager but not in windows explorer

[jojocool111]

Hey 

I just installed a 500gb wdc hard drive in my pc and after booting up it shows up as working in the device manager but i cant access it in windows explorer.

Does anyone know a solve for this problem?

thanks 

JO

[SkilledRebuilds]

Go to control panel, administrative tools, disk management, find your drive, initialize it/format it,..give it a drive letter

 

How to Partition - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/partition-hard-drive-windows-7.htm

How to Format - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/format-hard-drive-windows-7.htm

How to change Letter - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm

 

Win8.1 is much the same and this should also work on W8 as it does on W7, googling should give you the 8.1 method, IF its even different....

 

 

Hey 

I just installed a 500gb wdc hard drive in my pc and after booting up it shows up as working in the device manager but i cant access it in windows explorer.

Does anyone know a solve for this problem?

thanks 

JO

[TheSLSAMG]

You most likely have to assign a letter to the drive.

[Guest]

You need to create a partition, right click for that.

[jojocool111]

Go to control panel, administrative tools, disk management, find your drive, initialize it/format it,..give it a drive letter

 

How to do the above... - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/disk-management-windows-7.htm

thanks a lot 

didnt think of that