New WD Blue 1TB hiding from me.

[PixlRabt]

Hello internets,

So I installed my very first ever HDD earlier today. Up until now I have been using an SSD as my boot drive. However, I am assuming that the SSD was formatted during the OS installation, as my new HDD seems to have no partitions or anything, and as such comes up in the BIOS and the Device Manager, but nowhere else. My question is (a rookie one, I know, forgive me) can I simply format and create my own partition in the Hard drive manager, or is there some tool I have to use from WD?

[AlwaysFSX]

Go to disk management and format the drive?

[Suffokation]

Disk Management > Format (Format as NTFS)

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @tharrison14!

 

You can use the standard steps on initializing the hard drive. Here's an article from our KB how to do so:

 

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865/

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!  

[PixlRabt]

Can't figure out how to mark solved on the mobile site, but thank you, the information in that link was perfect.