Help Needed!!!

[ItsShibby]

So i just did a fresh reinstall of windows and im trying to add a HDD as storage to me pc but windows is not detecting it. it shows up in the Device Management window and it shows up in the bios but i does not show up on the Disk Management window. i have tried to install windows on this HDD just to see if i could but it doesnt even show up as an option for me to use. 

[Mr.Sir]

i had this problem as well just press Windows Key + R, type diskmgmt.msc and right click the disk and then set to normal disk or activate it

 

[ItsShibby]

It doesnt show up when i got to disk management so i cant do that

 

 

[Mr.Sir]

I'm not sure then, make sure all of the cables are in good condition and plugged in all the way. if that does't work it might be dead

[ItsShibby]

So to further the story alittle more this drive was working about 10 min ago before i reinstalled windows. But after the windows install i was trying to reformat it and somehow it just made the drive disappear from windows. everything detects that the drive is there but it just wont show up in the disk management tab

[Mr.Sir]

sorry, but I'm not really good with windows, i hope you get help

[ItsShibby]

its okay man. thank you anyways for trying

[Streetguru]

40 minutes ago, ItsShibby said:

 

Make a Gparted Live USB and see if it shows up in there

[ItsShibby]

i fixed it somehow. someone actually had the same exact issue i had. somehow somewhere windows decided to make the partition hidden and unusable all you need to do is download a partition manager and fix it that way