Missing Hard Drive

DJPE1944 · 06-04-2008, 06:50 PM

I have 2 x 500gb Western Digital Hard drives one recently gave up the goat so I returned it under warranty a few days later the new drive arrived and I installed it I can see this drive in the Bios and also in device manager but I can't see it in My Computer any ideas? I am using Windows Vista Utimate 64bit edition.

[-0MEGA-] · 06-04-2008, 07:46 PM

Have you created a partition and formatted it yet? If it's just unallocated space then it won't show under My Computer.

If not then you can do so by going to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Then click on the new drive, and either create a new partition or format it.

DJPE1944 · 06-05-2008, 12:33 PM

Thanks -0MEGA- problem solved.

06-04-2008, 06:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
DJPE1944 New Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: WORCESTERSHIRE Posts: 2	Missing Hard Drive I have 2 x 500gb Western Digital Hard drives one recently gave up the goat so I returned it under warranty a few days later the new drive arrived and I installed it I can see this drive in the Bios and also in device manager but I can't see it in My Computer any ideas? I am using Windows Vista Utimate 64bit edition.

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06-05-2008, 12:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
DJPE1944 New Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: WORCESTERSHIRE Posts: 2	Thanks -0MEGA- problem solved.