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You have to go into Disk Management and format and initialize the disk. To do this, search for the Disk Management application, right click on the disk (Should be Disk 1, since Disk 0 should be the boot disk) and click on new Spanned Volume. 

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I'm looking to get a second hard drive installed on my computer, it's plugged in, mounted etc. and I know it is there. But how the hell do I use it? I know this is a clearly amateur hour question but I am so confused as to why it doesn't appear in my list of hard drives on the windows 'Computer' tab. http://prntscr.com/5omohf This shows that there is two there, the one I'm trying to use is the Crucial_CT512 MX100 SSD 1.

 

I'd appreciate any help you could give, thanks.

 

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look at this guide

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsd/p/disk-management.htm

 

basically you need to assign the drive a letter and to format the drive

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You have to go into Disk Management and format and initialize the disk. To do this, search for the Disk Management application, right click on the disk (Should be Disk 1, since Disk 0 should be the boot disk) and click on new Spanned Volume. 

                                                                                                                                                      

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That looks like it's an SSD, not a hard drive...

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You have to go into Disk Management and format and initialize the disk. To do this, search for the Disk Management application, right click on the disk (Should be Disk 1, since Disk 0 should be the boot disk) and click on new Spanned Volume. 

 

 

look at this guide

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsd/p/disk-management.htm

 

basically you need to assign the drive a letter and to format the drive

Wonderful! Thank you both for the help I've now got the second drive :) Thanks!

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That looks like it's an SSD, not a hard drive...

Uhh yeah it is but I have a friend who actually knows what he's doing who said he'd "Do it right" in a few days hehe.

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Wonderful! Thank you both for the help I've now got the second drive :) Thanks!

Since you got the answer, you should mark it as a solution for others in the future.

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