HDD Problems

[That.Cyborg.Relay]

Hey everyone. So I'm installing my first HDD (I used nvme for boot drive). I'm seeing that it's detected in the sata 02 port in my bios, however I'm not seeing it in windows when I'm looking at my drives. What exactly might that be? Also, in case I'll be missing something when I actually try to download things, do I need to change settings for where my games will download so that they don't fill up my nvme? Will it bother anything that my games are located in one drive and steam is on the boot drive? Thanks for all the help in advance!

[Murasaki]

Go to Disk Managment and initialize the drive

[That.Cyborg.Relay]

In bios?

[Enderman]

Windows disk management.

In the admin tools.

In windows.

[seagate_surfer]

Hey OP. Are you running Windows? If so, from Windows, open a search bar/right click the Windows icon and type/click on Disk Management. 

If this disk hasn't already been initialized, it should pop up a prompt asking you to do so. You will also need to format it. If you're not sure how to go about that, the rest of the instructions can be found in our Knowledge Base article:

How to Format Your Hard Drive

Basically you're going to right-click the volume in Disk Management (should show as unallocated space), select simple volume, then follow through the instructions on the disk management formatting wizard until you get to the end.

[Windows7ge]

You can initialize your drives via disk management or CMD. Personally I like the CMD route. It's more strait forward. Here's an example using my machine. What you see will vary.

 

C:\Users\[name]> diskpart

 

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online          465 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 2    Online          149 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 3    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 4    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 5    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 6    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 7    Online          111 GB  1024 KB
 

DISKPART> select disk 0 (or whichever # corresponds to the disk you want to partition)

 

DISKPART> clean

 

DISKPART> convert gpt

 

DISKPART> create partition primary

 

DISKPART> format fs=ntfs /QUICK

 

DISKPART> assign

 

And you're done. The drive will show up as one large partition under My Computer (This PC)

As for things getting saved to the disk instead of your SSD you'll have to manually set every application to save data to that disk such as telling Steam to save games to disk D:\ or E:\ telling Chrome/Firefox to save downloads to disk D:\ or E:\, Telling programs that you want to install to install to disk D:\ or E:\ (whichever drive letter the new drive shows up as)