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hard drive detected in BIOS and disk management but not windows explorer

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just finished building computer. i have a samsung 840 pro SSD as boot drive and i have a 3TB WD black drive. it is detected in BIOS and windows disk management, but not in windows explorer so i cant seem to put anything in the drive or find it in windows

 

 

any help is appreciated, thanks

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i went to disk management and the 3TB seems to be split up into a 2TB and ~1TB partition. i made a new partition with the 2TB one (using option "New simple Volume") but i cannot do the same with the ~1TB portion

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just finished building computer. i have a samsung 840 pro SSD as boot drive and i have a 3TB WD black drive. it is detected in BIOS and windows disk management, but not in windows explorer so i cant seem to put anything in the drive or find it in windows

 

 

any help is appreciated, thanks

Right click on the disk, select Convert to GPT. Now you should be able to make one big volume on it.

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Right click on the disk, select Convert to GPT. Now you should be able to make one big volume on it.

 "covert the GPT" is greyed out.  at first i thought it was because i had windows installed on it. but i removed it, installed windows on my ssd and plugged the 3TB in after and it is still greyed out

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