Second Hard Drive Doesn't Show Up

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  1. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    Second Hard Drive Doesn't Show Up


    I just built a computer and I have a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD as my primary drive and a 500GB WD Caviar Blue as my secondary drive. The issue is that Windows 7 doesn't recognize the WD Caviar Blue, only the SSD. Both the BIOS and the Device Manager recognize the WD Hard Drive it just doesn't show up in Windows 7.
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  2. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #2

    Does it show up in Disk Management?? Can you assign a drive letter to it there?
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  3. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Im going to try to do that right now
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  4. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    It's actually not in there. I'll post a picture of my disk management then you analyze it.
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  5. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #5

    It needs to be formatted and then assigned a drive letter. It looks like you may have the SATA ports reversed as well, since the installer picked up the WD drive before your SSD.
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  6. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    What do you mean by the SATA ports? They are both plugged innto SATA 6GB's sockets as they're both SATA 6GB's drives.
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
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    Not sure how you got that 100 MB E partition. I'm guessing you had the 500 GB drive plugged in when you installed Windows onto the SSD??

    I thought you meant you couldn't see the drive at all. Looks like it there OK and just needs to be formatted as the Deacon says.
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  8. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    The 100MB partition is from the 500GB drive it's the system file partition. BUt how do I format the drive. There isn't that option...
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  9. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #9

    The SATA port thing probably doesn't matter, but you might swap cables on two ports you are using so that the SSD shows up first as drive 0 rather than drive 1. As I say, it may not matter. I have had a system running with the OS partition as drive 1 for years with no issues.
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  10. Posts : 27
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #10

    So seeing my disk management, what would you say to do?
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