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Computer Doesn't Recognize The Hard Drive

pancoon
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Hi everyone,

I have a SSD and a Hard Drive. I started the computer only with the SATA cable connected to the SSD, to make sure windows 7 would go on it. Now I connected the power and SATA to the Hard Drive as well and it doesn't show up as storage in windows 7. I only see my 128 GB SSD C: drive and nothing else. Is there a problem in winodws, or should I reconnect the power and SATA?

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Your drive probably has no filesystem that's recognized by Windows. Try using Acronis Disk Director or something similar to format your HDD into NTFS (or whatever you prefer).

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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Your drive probably has no filesystem that's recognized by Windows. Try using Acronis Disk Director or something similar to format your HDD into NTFS (or whatever you prefer).

It's a Seagate HDD so I would of thought it would already be formatted.

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Your drive probably has no filesystem that's recognized by Windows. Try using Acronis Disk Director or something similar to format your HDD into NTFS (or whatever you prefer).

Ok it found my HDD but it says uninitialized. How do I format it from here and what does that mean?

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need to intialise it first, click start, type hard disk and an option with "create and format hard disk partitions" should come up. Open that program, you should see your hard disk, right click it and initialise option should be there.

 

Then I think you need to right click it and create a partition. (all off memory so might be an extra step here or there but that's generally the right path to go)

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Ok it found my HDD but it says uninitialized. How do I format it from here and what does that mean?

As far as I remember you have to choose the option "Add new disk" then select your uninitialized drive and voila.

 

Aw bugger, got ninja'd.

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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need to intialise it first, click start, type hard disk and an option with "create and format hard disk partitions" should come up. Open that program, you should see your hard disk, right click it and initialise option should be there.

 

Then I think you need to right click it and create a partition. (all off memory so might be an extra step here or there but that's generally the right path to go)

 

 

As far as I remember you have to choose the option "Add new disk" then select your uninitialized drive and voila.

 

Aw bugger, got ninja'd.

I was tried to format it as NTFS, but it wounl't complete because I was using the demo version :/. Is there any free software that will do this for me?

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I was tried to format it as NTFS, but it wounl't complete because I was using the demo version :/. Is there any free software that will do this for me?

Riiiight, the demo. Do as @gramzon said, I completely forgot about there's the integrated Windows utility.

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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