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windows dosent detect my wd green 1tb drive?

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in my bios? (mobo detects the drive just fine)

Windows file manager, does it show it? If not get PartitionWizard and format it to NTFS, then you can assign a drive letter via Windows Drive Manager and then it will 100% work

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im stuggling with windows not detecting my wd green 1tb drive. (NOTE:this is not a new drive, it was working happily in my linux server but i needed mode space in my windows pc so i nerfed the server to 8tb) (the driwe may have some linux stuff on it)

My pc:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dvcw23 

(Black Glacier)

 

My server:

Dual xeon x5679 processors, 24gb of ECC memory, Nvidia quadro 295 NVS and 48tb of storage.  (z600) 

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im stuggling with windows not detecting my wd green 1tb drive. (NOTE:this is not a new drive, it was working happily in my linux server but i needed mode space in my windows pc so i nerfed the server to 8tb) (the driwe may have some linux stuff on it)

Go to drive manager and then assign a drive letter to it, that should fix it.

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Go to drive manager and then assign a drive letter to it, that should fix it.

in my bios? (mobo detects the drive just fine)

My pc:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dvcw23 

(Black Glacier)

 

My server:

Dual xeon x5679 processors, 24gb of ECC memory, Nvidia quadro 295 NVS and 48tb of storage.  (z600) 

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im stuggling with windows not detecting my wd green 1tb drive. (NOTE:this is not a new drive, it was working happily in my linux server but i needed mode space in my windows pc so i nerfed the server to 8tb) (the driwe may have some linux stuff on it)

If the drive has some information from the Linux installation, you'll need to delete it. Because it's using a completely different type of file system.

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in my bios? (mobo detects the drive just fine)

 

Open up the Start menu, search for Disk Management, and open up the first thing you see (at least, it should be the first thing).

DAYTONA

PROCESSOR - AMD RYZEN 7 3700X
MOTHERBOARD - ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
RAM - 32GB (4x8GB) CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4-2400
CPU COOLING - NOCTUA NH-D14
GRAPHICS CARD - EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980Ti SC+ ACX 2.0 w/ BACKPLATE
BOOT and PROGRAMS - CORSAIR MP600 1TB
GAMES and FILES - TOSHIBA 2TB
INTERNAL BACKUP - WESTERN DIGITAL GREEN 4TB
POWER SUPPLY - CORSAIR RM850i
CASE - CORSAIR OBSIDIAN 750D

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in my bios? (mobo detects the drive just fine)

Windows file manager, does it show it? If not get PartitionWizard and format it to NTFS, then you can assign a drive letter via Windows Drive Manager and then it will 100% work

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