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New Drive Not Recognized

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Go to solution Solved by Mojo-Jojo,

Nope; when you get a new storage medium it is fully empty. It does not contain any partition tables yet, so there's no drive.

Go into Administrative tools/Computer Management and look for Disk Management.

 

From there you can create a new partition table and new volumes.

 

Edit: see this linky http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx

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Nope; when you get a new storage medium it is fully empty. It does not contain any partition tables yet, so there's no drive.

Go into Administrative tools/Computer Management and look for Disk Management.

 

From there you can create a new partition table and new volumes.

 

Edit: see this linky http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx

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