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Hard drive not detected

FattyMcBatty
By FattyMcBatty
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I recently bought a new hard drive from seagate  ST2000DM001-1CH164 is the model number, and it's not being used, it shows up in the bios and I can hear it running but when I try to download a game it only shows my 840 EVO which is at capacity and won't use the hard drive, I have a 970a-ds3p motherboard from gigabyte, I downloaded seatools from seagate's website and it detects the drive but again, will not use it, is there something obvious I'm missing? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

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Did you format it?

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You're going to need to go into Disk Management and add a new volume before it shows up in the File Explorer.

 

Tutorial here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx

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