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I have an SSD that I've been using for a while, but it's almost out of space now, so I got a new internal Hard Drive that I want to use in addition to my SSD. I plugged in the SATA and power cables, and went into the BIOS to make sure it was hooked up correctly. Sure enough, it was listed in the BIOS just like it should be, but when I go into Windows, it can't find it. Not just in "This PC" no, I know it needs to be configured before it will show up there, but even when I go into Device Manager or Disk Management, it doesn't show up. What am I doing wrong?

In case it's important, my motherboard is an ASRock H97M Pro4 and the new HDD is a 1TB Western Digital WD1003FZEX (which is a Black one).

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In the bios, is the sata port of the hdd set to hard disk drive? Is quick boot enabled?

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Yes, the SATA port is set to HDD. Quick Boot is not enabled.

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Mount the disk in windows using disk tools snap-in within computer management. You can find it in administration tools in the control panel.

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13 minutes ago, NiteHood said:

I have an SSD that I've been using for a while, but it's almost out of space now, so I got a new internal Hard Drive that I want to use in addition to my SSD. I plugged in the SATA and power cables, and went into the BIOS to make sure it was hooked up correctly. Sure enough, it was listed in the BIOS just like it should be, but when I go into Windows, it can't find it. Not just in "This PC" no, I know it needs to be configured before it will show up there, but even when I go into Device Manager or Disk Management, it doesn't show up. What am I doing wrong?

In case it's important, my motherboard is an ASRock H97M Pro4 and the new HDD is a 1TB Western Digital WD1003FZEX (which is a Black one).

are the storage settings set to ahci? did you format it and created a volume?

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3 minutes ago, NiteHood said:

Yes, the SATA port is set to HDD. Quick Boot is not enabled.

you need to go to disc management and create a new simple volume.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, billstelling said:

The disk has not been mounted....

Okay, how do I mount it? Your directions are confusing me. There are no "Administration Tools" on the Control Panel screen.

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5 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

you need to go to disc management and create a new simple volume.

 

 

The Disk Management screen does not show any unallocated space. It only detects the SSD I have, which is already allocated. i.e. It is not letting me create a new simple volume.

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1 minute ago, NiteHood said:

The Disk Management screen does not show any unallocated space. It only detects the SSD I have, which is already allocated. i.e. It is not letting me create a new simple volume.

Its a long shot but you could try booting the pc with the sata cable disconnected from the motherboard than plug it back in once you get to windows.  

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It should show up as an unmounted partition. It would be it's own drive as well, like how it shows the cd-drive in the vid below were here was creating the partition. You would see an un-allocated drive. No partitions on it set for ide or gpt..

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2 hours ago, NiteHood said:

The Disk Management screen does not show any unallocated space. It only detects the SSD I have, which is already allocated. i.e. It is not letting me create a new simple volume.

Initialize the disk first, then create a new partition. If Disk Management gives you trouble (it happens) use diskpart via an admin instance of CMD. You can look up the basic diskpart commands with Google.

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do a hard reboot of windows 10 first [press reset button on computer] so it will load everything again [may boot longer].

 

then, open windows explorer, on left list menu find My Computer , right click on it and from pop-up menu choose "manage", when Computer Management opens, select Disc Manager and your hard drive should be there [if it was not initialized, Windows will automatically give you an option to initialize it and format it]

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On 1/25/2018 at 6:26 PM, LordMMX said:

do a hard reboot of windows 10 first [press reset button on computer] so it will load everything again [may boot longer].

 

then, open windows explorer, on left list menu find My Computer , right click on it and from pop-up menu choose "manage", when Computer Management opens, select Disc Manager and your hard drive should be there [if it was not initialized, Windows will automatically give you an option to initialize it and format it]

Holy crap. That actually worked. Thank you so much. I had no idea it would be as simple as resetting via the button on the case.

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21 hours ago, NiteHood said:

Holy crap. That actually worked. Thank you so much. I had no idea it would be as simple as resetting via the button on the case.

well, it works because in normal shutdown / startup scenario, windows boots so fast because it is not checking for hardware changes. but on hard reboot it must load everything again and also check hardware changes that caused unexpected reboot.

 

and you're welcome :)

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On 1/26/2018 at 6:26 AM, LordMMX said:

do a hard reboot of windows 10 first [press reset button on computer] so it will load everything again [may boot longer].

 

then, open windows explorer, on left list menu find My Computer , right click on it and from pop-up menu choose "manage", when Computer Management opens, select Disc Manager and your hard drive should be there [if it was not initialized, Windows will automatically give you an option to initialize it and format it]

Dude, thanks a million, you are savior. I never thought a hard reboot could have saved my 6 hours. I wish I have read it before applying any other solution. can't thank enough!!

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On 1/25/2018 at 7:23 PM, NiteHood said:

I have an SSD that I've been using for a while, but it's almost out of space now, so I got a new internal Hard Drive that I want to use in addition to my SSD. I plugged in the SATA and power cables, and went into the BIOS to make sure it was hooked up correctly. Sure enough, it was listed in the BIOS just like it should be, but when I go into Windows, it can't find it. Not just in "This PC" no, I know it needs to be configured before it will show up there, but even when I go into Device Manager or Disk Management, it doesn't show up. What am I doing wrong?

In case it's important, my motherboard is an ASRock H97M Pro4 and the new HDD is a 1TB Western Digital WD1003FZEX (which is a Black one).

Have you done the following?

 

Right click on 'This PC' on the desktop, and click manage

Select Disk Management, wait for it to populate

 

Can you see the drive you've installed, it will probably be greyed out, not highlighted with a blue bar like the others that you can see.

 

On the left side, when it says 'disk 1' with 1 being whatever number it has assigned... right click and select 'New Simple Volume'

 

Once that's done you should be able to format the drive for use within windows (right click on drive pane which should now be highlighted with a blue bar)... I'm trying to do this from memory so I apologise if any of the steps are out of order.

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On 1/25/2018 at 8:26 PM, LordMMX said:

do a hard reboot of windows 10 first [press reset button on computer] so it will load everything again [may boot longer].

 

 

Just wanted to say also, this totally worked.. awesome solution to a problem  I have experienced many times.  Excellent !

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On 1/26/2018 at 12:26 PM, LordMMX said:

do a hard reboot of windows 10 first [press reset button on computer] so it will load everything again [may boot longer].

This also worked for me, after loads of fruitless Googling for the same 'solutions' that didn't work.


However this begs the question on why Windows needs a hard reset in order to detect a new hard disk, when 'Rescan disks' in Disk Management doesn't. Even if it's true that "windows boots so fast because it is not checking for hardware changes" you'd imagine that prompting Windows to detect new hardware changes would do the same thing.

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