Hard drive not recognizing

Ultimate Assassin · November 5, 2015

So I just built a new pic and wet windows on my ssd. I also have a hard drive to put my games in. My boot priority is set to ssd. My hard drive is not prioritized anywhere. I know my motherboard recognizes my hard drive because I can swap between ssd and the hard drive. I don't want to swap to my hard drive because my boot priority will be on my hard drive. When I look at my computer, it only shows up with the ssd. I unplugged and replugged my hd and still not working. How do I get it to show up both ssd and HD on my boot priority bar

In case ur wandering I'm using an msi z77a-g43 with click bios 2

Prikk · November 5, 2015

Check your HDD's power cables yet?

manikyath · November 5, 2015

1: use disk management to format the drive as ntfs.

2: ???

3: profit.

EDIT: WAIT what's the drive supposed to be doing exactly? (kinda conflcting information there )

Captain_WD · November 5, 2015

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Hey there

Is your drive recognized in Device Manager and Disk Management? All new drives need to be initialized first and then their unallocated space needs to be allocated, partitioned, formatted and a letter needs to be assigned. Then you should see the drive in My Computer and be able to operate with it.

If that doesn't help, do check all your cables and ports and possibly try the drive on another computer.

Captain_WD.