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AlanAlan
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So I recently bought a wd blue 1tb hard drive and I plugged it with sata and power and it boots up and i boot with another hard drive to windows 7 and I want to see how much the new one has and I can't find it on windows 7 can anyone help me. I want to find how much my new hard drive has

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So I recently bought a wd blue 1tb hard drive and I plugged it with sata and power and it boots up and i boot with another hard drive to windows 7 and I want to see how much the new one has and I can't find it on windows 7 can anyone help me. I want to find how much my new hard drive has

Hey there Alanalan,
 
Is the drive recognized properlly (model and capacity) in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management? If the drive is recognized in all three places, go to Disk Management, there should be a small red arrow where the drive is. Right-click and choose "initialize". then you'll see the drive as unallocated space. You should right-click on it and create a new volume, partition it and format it and then assign a letter to it. Then you should be able to use the drive. :)
 
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Hey there Alanalan,

 

Is the drive recognized properlly (model and capacity) in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management? If the drive is recognized in all three places, go to Disk Management, there should be a small red arrow where the drive is. Right-click and choose "initialize". then you'll see the drive as unallocated space. You should right-click on it and create a new volume, partition it and format it and then assign a letter to it. Then you should be able to use the drive. :)

 

Captain_WD.

When I plugged everything in and booted to windows 7 it said installing drivers and it was for the new wd drive

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Hey there Alanalan,

 

Is the drive recognized properlly (model and capacity) in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management? If the drive is recognized in all three places, go to Disk Management, there should be a small red arrow where the drive is. Right-click and choose "initialize". then you'll see the drive as unallocated space. You should right-click on it and create a new volume, partition it and format it and then assign a letter to it. Then you should be able to use the drive. :)

 

Captain_WD.

Is there anyway I can check the new hard drive without an operating system?

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Is there anyway I can check the new hard drive without an operating system?

 

There should be available tools that you can boot from a thumb drive. You can also try Linux Live CD and see if it does the job for you. :)
 
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If this helped you, like and choose it as best answer - you might help someone else with the same issue. ^_^
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