Hard Drive Not Detected?

[impruv]

I recently bought the wd20ears [WD 2TB Green 64mb cache] and I attached all the cables and Windows 7 doesn't show it in My Computer. I checked the BIOS and it's detected there...
What should I do?

[SugarJ]

Click start button, click help and support, search for create partition. Follow the directions, and you should then be able to see the drive.

[ipaine]

You most likely have to go to disk management and format it and give it a drive letter.

Easiest way is to just type diskmgmt.msc into the search box in the start menu. That should open up disk management and you should see your drive in there.

From there just create the partition and give it a drive letter and it will show in my computer.


Here are some steps taken from here.

1. Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then click New Simple Volume.
2. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next.
3. Type the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then click Next.
4. Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then click Next.
5. In the Format Partition dialog box, do one of the following:
   
   • If you don't want to format the volume right now, click Do not format this volume, and then click Next.
   • To format the volume with the default settings, click Next.
6. Review your choices, and then click Finish.

[impruv]

Thank you so much. All is well :)