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HDD Not Showing Up!

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By Abery
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Hello people, I'm having this big problem with my internal 1TB Western Digital HDD. Firstly, I plug it in and the internals are running cleanly, no weird noises or anything to that extent. Then, I get into the computer, and it doesn't show up in the "My PC" area, so I go into disk management and it's not there. There is no unallocated space for me to partition. I then go into device manager and the computer reads the hard drive. Please help, I feel like I've tried everything and getting nowhere. 

 

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Make sure its sata cable is plugged in correctly and not loose. Make sure for both the HDD and the mobo, since the cable enters both. 

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Yeah, everything is correctly plugged in, is this thing faulty?

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Yeah, everything is correctly plugged in, is this thing faulty?

Does it spin up?

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Yes everything spins up, the hard drive itself is running. It shoes up in the device manager, but its not showing up in disk management to partition

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Yes everything spins up, the hard drive itself is running. It shoes up in the device manager, but its not showing up in disk management to partition

Does it also show up in the BIOS(I think it would)?

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Yeah is also shows there too

Can you download a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard(it's free) and see if it shows up there?

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It does not show up there either

Do you have another PC you can plug the drive into by any chance?

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"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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I've tried it but, again, no luck, same results

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