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Jbreezy2322
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I have a 3TB Toshiba mechanical hard drive in my rig. It is recognized in the BIOS but when in windows it doesn't show up. It is a completely bare drive. How do I get it to show up?

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1 minute ago, Jbreezy2322 said:

I have a 3TB Toshiba mechanical hard drive in my rig. It is recognized in the BIOS but when in windows it doesn't show up. It is a completely bare drive. How do I get it to show up?

I have a Samsung 850 EVO as my boot drive with windows on it And that shows up fine. 

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You have to allocate the space through the disk manager.

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Allocate the partition. Here's a video :

 

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As @jato_127 said, you will need to launch Disk Management and mark the drive as active.

 

To open Disk Management, press Windows key and R, and in the dialog box that appears, type diskmgmt.msc

 

You will get a window that has all your present drives installed in your PC.

 

Right-click on the inactive partition that will be the 3TB drive, and go through the prompts to be able to use the drive so it appears in This PC.

 

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