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New Build - Drive Recognition Problems
I just finished my first desktop build and installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I've got 2 drives: Drive #1 (OCZ Vertex 3 SSD - 120G) and Drive #2 (WD Caviar Black - 1TB). I'm using Drive #1 as the Boot Disk where "programs only" will be installed, and Drive #2 will be used for storage. Everything seemed to go fine, except after installation, Explorer did not recognize Drive #2; but, the Device Manager did see it. It is calling Drive #1, "Disk 1." It is calling Drive #2, "Disk 0."
Under Device Properties/ Volumes Tab, this is what my Disk #2 (the WD Caviar Black) is showing:
Disk: Disk 0
Type: Unknown
Status: Not Initialized
Partition Type: Not applicable
Capacity: 953870 MB
Unallocated Space: 0 MB
Reserved Space: 0 MB
After searching various forums for information, this is what I did:
1. I accessed the disk this way: Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management
2. I located the disk under Disk Management, then right-clicked and chose Initialize Disk
This seemed to work, however, it was now recognized as Drive E, since Drive D was the name already given to my DVD drive. I should have stopped there, but since I am very picky and want everything to be just so, I temporarily renamed my DVD drive to Drive F, so that I could rename the newly recognized Drive E to Drive D. Then, after renaming Drive E to Drive D, I noticed something strange --my newly renamed Drive D (the WD Caviar Black - 1TB), showed a total capacity of 99.9 MB! As it turned out, what happened is that 99.9 MB of my Drive C got partitioned into a Drive D. I have no idea how this happened -- I have been extremely careful. Now I'm stuck. My WD Caviar Black - 1TB, is back to being unrecognized by Explorer, but is recognized by the Device Manager. . . and my OCZ Vertex 3 has been partitioned into Drives C and D, which I don't want.
Can anyone help me figure out how to remove the partition on the OCZ drive, and help me to get Explorer to recognize my WD drive?
Last edited by jiroband; 06 May 2011 at 22:52.