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Text version... Go into "disk management" and your drive will appear. Select the drive and format it. YAY!

 

(BTW don't worry no one talks about that, and imho it's not blatantly obviously until you have done it once.)

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Hey there :)
 
Is the drive detected in BIOS, Device Manager or Disk Management? I would go to Disk Management and see if and how was the drive partitioned and formatted. Do take a screenshot and post it here. I would also recommend using a diagnostic tool from the manufacturer's website and see if it detects the drive. If it does, check if the drive passes both the quick and the extended tests. 
What's the drive brand and model?
 
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I had this happen just recently with a flash drive. I connected it to an old laptop and it took it 10 minutes to detect the usd drive. 

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Hey there :)

Is the drive detected in BIOS, Device Manager or Disk Management? I would go to Disk Management and see if and how was the drive partitioned and formatted. Do take a screenshot and post it here. I would also recommend using a diagnostic tool from the manufacturer's website and see if it detects the drive. If it does, check if the drive passes both the quick and the extended tests.

What's the drive brand and model?

Captain_WD.

c211217c5ca84e621da5e495367cb5a1.jpg sorry about bad pictures I hope this helps I don't want to mess anything up I'm not suppose to. It's a western digital blue and I want it to be where everything I download etc goes unless I choose to put it on the 250gb samsung ssd
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Right-click on the Unallocated space (the black part) and you will see some options, one of which should be New Simple Volume. It will guide you to creating a new volume, formatting it and then assigning it a letter. :) This should fix things up. This has to be done with all new drives that are freshly connected to a computer. :)
 
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