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Look in a program like crystal disk info, might be issues with the drive, or its used by anouther program already, like storage spaces.

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Today I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive. I've attached it to my PC and started up my PC. I can view it on BIOS and device manager, however I cannot view it on Disk management to allocate it new volume. Can anyone help? Am i doing something wrong?

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6 minutes ago, Timstertim said:

Today I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive. I've attached it to my PC and started up my PC. I can view it on BIOS and device manager, however I cannot view it on Disk management to allocate it new volume. Can anyone help? Am i doing something wrong?

Can you take a screenshot in disk managment ?

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Here you go, the one circled in blue is the drive

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Look in a program like crystal disk info, might be issues with the drive, or its used by anouther program already, like storage spaces.

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try opening diskpart ( open cmd type diskpart) and run the command list disk does it show up there ?

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11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Look in a program like crystal disk info, might be issues with the drive, or its used by anouther program already, like storage spaces.

OMG, seems like storage spaces took it over. Thanks :)

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