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HDD not showing up

AlienMushroom
By AlienMushroom
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you need to right click on the start menu or press Winkey+X then open disk management.

 

Then, you need to format the HDD in disk management.

 

afterwards it should appear in windows.

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Go to Disk Management as detailed above. You'll need to give the disk a partition and format it. 

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