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I think you have to create a new partition if you just received it as new.

 

Search "Disk Management" in the Windows search, right click the black area that should say "unallocated" and create a new simple volume.

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I just installed a WD blue into my system and it wont recognize. it shows up in my bios menu but not on my PC file explorer. Any ideas how to fix?

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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Reboot > Storage manager > Initialize disk

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I just installed a WD blue into my system and it wont recognize. it shows up in my bios menu but not on my PC file explorer. Any ideas how to fix?

Right click start, click disk mangement and initialise disk.

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I think you have to create a new partition if you just received it as new.

 

Search "Disk Management" in the Windows search, right click the black area that should say "unallocated" and create a new simple volume.

Thank you! :)

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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Thank you! :)

 

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I just installed a WD blue into my system and it wont recognize. it shows up in my bios menu but not on my PC file explorer. Any ideas how to fix?

 

Hey there onemanarmy720,
 
Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management? New drives usually need to be initialized first, then partitioned, formatted and assigned a letter in order to be seen in Windows Explorer and used. :) If you can't do this, try other SATA cables and ports and possibly try the drive on another computer. Running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic on the drive should give you a pretty good idea of the drive's condition. I'd run both the quick and the extended tests. Here's a link to the tool: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=GrqHNq
 
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Hey there onemanarmy720,
 
Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management? New drives usually need to be initialized first, then partitioned, formatted and assigned a letter in order to be seen in Windows Explorer and used. :) If you can't do this, try other SATA cables and ports and possibly try the drive on another computer. Running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic on the drive should give you a pretty good idea of the drive's condition. I'd run both the quick and the extended tests. Here's a link to the tool: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=GrqHNq
 
Captain_WD.

 

i have check the drive my self and the speeds and temp are great. thank you tho!

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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im not your friend. im you brother! my friend

some pasha going on ? ^^

btw how is your 960 performing?

which games do you play?

greetz

i play anything i want with my 960.. normally arc, gta v, garys mod, and just about anything else i want.

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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