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Homeless

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I bought a new hard drive. Plugged everything in. Turned everything on, and got to the home page. Pop up came up saying that the drive had installed correctly, problem is i cannot find it. Any help would be great.
 
Probably needs to be initialized, partitioned and then formatted in that order. If its not partitioned you wont see a drive letter.

Go to control panel if in category mode go to System and Security and then under Administrative Tools you should see a link "Create and format hard disk partitions" Click on it. In icon mode it will be on the list as Administrative Tools in that window go to Computer management and click on the Disk Management.

Once inside the disk management panel... I dont have any completely wiped drives so I am trying to remember here. Edit check this - http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/15/how-to-configure-a-new-hard-drive-in-windows-7/
Right click on the drive, initialize it if needed. Once there right click and create partition. If your in a hurry be sure to check quick format when presented with format options otherwise it will do a lengthy disk check which while advisable is lengthy and I never do them on new drives.

Initialization dialog:
windows7-initialize-disk.png
It will ask you MBR or GPT. You only need the drive to be GPT if its over 2TB and or booting from uefi mode. MBR is the safe bet, but to change it later you have to wipe the drive.
 
Ok got to the create and format part, i right click on the drive and it gives me options of spanned, striped, or mirrored volume. Also convert to dynamic or gpt disk.
 
Homeless said:
Ok got to the create and format part, i right click on the drive and it gives me options of spanned, striped, or mirrored volume. Also convert to dynamic or gpt disk.
Click to expand...

Right click out in the area to the right of that see if it gives you a slightly different list. All of those options are for raid setups. Should be one for simple volume.
Image:
partition-hard-drive-windows-7.gif

You may or may not get asked at some point wether you want it to be primary or extended but primary partition is fine.
 
That Rain is a helpful motherfucker, I don't care what's written about him in the bathroom stalls.
 
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