Fixed, I no longer need help.

[Demolishdude]

So I built my friend a computer and he has a SSD as a boot drive and a Hard drive as a data drive. However, his BIOS recognizes the drive, and Windows 7 recognizes it in device manager, but he can't access the drive to store files on it. We tried installing the SATA driver for the Asus M5A97 LE R2.0, but it wouldn't recognize anything as a drive to install to. Any possible solutions?

 

 

 

EDIT- We went into disk management. For some reason, part of that drive is windows reserved, and the rest of the 912 GB is unusable. The only drives that it is letting us play with is the SSD and system reserved.

 

 

EDIT 2- We found we could create a new simple volume from the 912 gb. IS that what we should do?

 

 

Fixed. Thanks for the suggestions!

Edited January 27, 2015 by Demolishdude

[Volbet]

Have he formatted the drive and assigned it a drive letter?

This is done through Disk manager.

Just right click ´Computer´ → Click ´Manage´ → Click ´Disk management´ and select to create a new volume out of the drive.

[pwn_intended]

open up dist management and make sure that the drive is online/formatted

[Prastupok]

Winkey + x brings up admin options, by the way. Make sure it's partitioned, THEN formatted.