Harddrive not showing up

[Ginka]

Hey guys

I have a SSD (where my win is located) and a HDD (Media and a few games)

 

So i had this problem with win10 forcing me to format my SSD then reinstall win10.

I had no real pb with that except that when the install finished, the HDD wasn't showing up anymore in win. It does appear in the BIOS and in the disk management but so far, I couldn't find a way to make it work again.
Please see the pic for info.

Any help would be really appreciated

[Electronics Wizardy]

You need to mount the drive in disk management.

[NinJake]

Yep, should be in disk management.

[SupaKomputa]

Get a free partition editor, initialize the drive and format the way you want.

Or run the disk management app that the drive came with.

I think the drive is stuck in foreign mode.

[NinJake]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

Get a free partition editor,

There's really no point in downloading "free software" when disk management is on all Windows operating systems. You can even initialize it through command prompt.

[SupaKomputa]

3 minutes ago, NinJake said:

You can even initialize it through command prompt.

ok mastah, please elaborate.

[NinJake]

@SupaKomputa

Open cmd:

1. Type diskpart
2. Type "list disk"
3. Locate your HDD and take note if it's disk 0 or 1
4. Type "Select disk x" where x = your HDD
5. Type "Attributes disk clear readonly"
6. Type "online disk"
7. Type "Convert mbr" (if you want a master boot record disk, which will suffice more than likely, if not, replace mbr with gpt)

 

Then you can create partitions however you desire and assign drive letters through disk management.

[NTDaws]

28 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Get a free partition editor, initialize the drive and format the way you want.

Or run the disk management app that the drive came with.

I think the drive is stuck in foreign mode.

Why? He can just initialize and format the drive for NTFs in disk management?

[SupaKomputa]

2 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

Why? He can just initialize and format the drive for NTFs in disk management?

One click action, easier for newbies.

[NTDaws]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

One click action, easier for newbies.

Jeese.

 

Anyways, in search type in disk management

It will load all your drives and partitions.

Right click on your hard drive and format it to NTFS.

Really just keep clicking next until it's formatted.

[Ginka]

I found the solution
I just had to right click on it and put the disk on online

[NinJake]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

One click action, easier for newbies.

Also easier to accidentally download a bad piece of software that some might consider to be a virus, etc....

[Ace McPlane]

Are you guys sure this is a formatting issue?

Could he perhaps just need to designate a drive letter for it?

The last time a drive didn't show up for me, that's all I had to do.