windows 10 Secondary hard drive not responding?

[guycalledZero]

Hello everyone,

 

I currently have a Windows 10 pc with one hard drive which is 2TB. Not long ago I found my old laptop hard drive 2.5" and decided to install it into my pc. So I did that, connected it to the SATA 3 port, hooked it up to power and boom it showed up on windows as a second hard drive. Ok, this is where it gets weird. I shut down my computer and when I turn it on again to see my pc (in windows) it doesn't show up?

 

Windows basically is deciding when it see's the hard drive and when it doesn't. Or is it because not enough power is being supplied? I really don't know and would appreciate if anyone could help me out.

 

Cheers, 

[Hauklien]

First off, Zero. Welcome to the community, and congratz with your first post.

Have you checked Disk Management to see if the HDD appears in there?

Press Win + R, and run diskmgmt.msc

 

Also, I would recommend formatting the HDD if you are planning on using it for storage.

[guycalledZero]

3 minutes ago, Hauklien said:

First off, Zero. Welcome to the community, and congratz with your first post.

Have you checked Disk Management to see if the HDD appears in there?

Press Win + R, and run diskmgmt.msc

 

Also, I would recommend formatting the HDD if you are planning on using it for storage.

http://prntscr.com/jh7tip

 

It wouldn't allow me to do anything, when i pressed initialise.... 

[guycalledZero]

7 minutes ago, Hauklien said:

First off, Zero. Welcome to the community, and congratz with your first post.

Have you checked Disk Management to see if the HDD appears in there?

Press Win + R, and run diskmgmt.msc

 

Also, I would recommend formatting the HDD if you are planning on using it for storage.

Should I plug it into the SATA 6 port?

[Hauklien]

2 minutes ago, guycalledZero said:

Should I plug it into the SATA 6 port?

What kind of connectivity are you using to communicate with the drive if not?

 

It looks like Windows detects the drive, but you need to initialize it. Some people have success trying to initialize it in GPT, and then in MBR again. Maybe that could fix your problem too.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1732335/hard-drive-initialize.html#r11848010