Second HDD not showing up.

[fox9920]

Recently I built a new PC, first time building one and I am incredibly un-educated when it comes to software on PC's. I have a samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD (what im running off now) and a Segate Barracuda 2TB HDD, I have no idea how to use my Barracuda it doesnt show up under my computer tab (running windows 7) and im really scared to go into bios because with my luck I will break my computer poking around in there. If anyone knows how I can acces my Barracuda and run things off of it and install things on it please let me know.

[Sir Asvald]

Recently I built a new PC, first time building one and I am incredibly un-educated when it comes to software on PC's. I have a samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD (what im running off now) and a Segate Barracuda 2TB HDD, I have no idea how to use my Barracuda it doesnt show up under my computer tab (running windows 7) and im really scared to go into bios because with my luck I will break my computer poking around in there. If anyone knows how I can acces my Barracuda and run things off of it and install things on it please let me know.

Go to the search bar and type in disk management, after that, locate the drive and create it. 

[KemoKa]

A lot of hard drives come unformatted, which means that you'll have to go into disk management and set it up as a volume. It's really easy.

[Aytex]

A lot of hard drives come unformatted, which means that you'll have to go into disk management and set it up as a volume. It's really easy.

so its a rare chance for your drive to come formatted? cause mine do (am i speshial)

[KemoKa]

so its a rare chance for your drive to come formatted? cause mine do (am i speshial)

I've no idea. Most of the ones I've had have been unformatted, so... yeah. Normally when you install an OS it will start by formatting your boot drive, but since everyone is moving to SSDs for their boot drives, their HDDs are left unformatted, and so... they end up going "Whaaaaaaat?"

[Chronos5618]

Most drives I've ever used have come unformatted. Here is the link to guide you though- it's super simple (just make sure you format the right one )

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7

 

Incidentally, I did this only this morning when I added a WD Red to my server. Angry red hard drive symbols be gone! 

[fox9920]

Go to the search bar and type in disk management, after that, locate the drive and create it. 

Alright I opened disk managment and first i get a pop up window that says initialize disk, I must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can acess it, it says disk 1 and I assume this is my barracuda? and what partition style should I use? MBR or GPT?

[Lethal Seraph]

Is it even initialized?

[LinusDropTips]

Alright I opened disk managment and first i get a pop up window that says initialize disk, I must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can acess it, it says disk 1 and I assume this s my barracuda? and what partition style should I use? MBR or GPT?

Master Boot Record (MBR) is the older standard which should be used on older systems like Windows XP (or the boot drive for Windows 7 or Vista). It only supports partitions up to 2TB and can only have 4 primary partitions (amongst other disadvantages).

 

GUID Partition Table (GPT) is the newer standard used by default in Windows 8 and 10 installations. It supports partitions over 2TB and gets past the 4 partition limit. I would recommend this for any modern system.

 

After this you will have to right click the drive and make a new simple partition.