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the system is showing it but it is unallocated so windows can not use it.

 

do what is detailed in this video to set up a new disk so that windows will recognize it.

formatting it should not do anything to your ssd which is your boot drive.

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Open disk management (right click the start menu) and format the HDD

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my brother has a similar problem with his SSHD with is beeing configured as MBR(IIRC) and basically not beeing usable becuase windows thought that was a good idea, i think you could fix it by some commands in the BIOS but there is no way to get into the BIOS of his PC lol, good luck with this tho

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1.  check in your device manager if the drive is detected

2. if it is, go into the disk manager and format it to NTFS and it should come up

3. if not, then check the BIOS to see if its detected. 

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12 hours ago, 007agentHP said:

1.  check in your device manager if the drive is detected

2. if it is, go into the disk manager and format it to NTFS and it should come up

3. if not, then check the BIOS to see if its detected. 

I went to disk management and it is there but it says dynamic, online and unallocated. But my windows doesnt detect the HDD. What do I do ? But will it mess up my Windows if I format it to NTFS when my SSD is already NTFS and it has my Windows ? And how do I even format it to NTFS ?
 

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the system is showing it but it is unallocated so windows can not use it.

 

do what is detailed in this video to set up a new disk so that windows will recognize it.

formatting it should not do anything to your ssd which is your boot drive.

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23 hours ago, StainlessSR said:

the system is showing it but it is unallocated so windows can not use it.

 

do what is detailed in this video to set up a new disk so that windows will recognize it.

formatting it should not do anything to your ssd which is your boot drive.

Thanks that got the job done 

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