I'm not able to see my secondary hard drives


  1. Posts : 4
    Windows Premium 64
       #1

    I'm not able to see my secondary hard drives


    I'm wanting to format my second hard drive but windows 7 does not see it.
    It does show up in the BIOS.

    Thank you for any help
    Format
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  2. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    If you open an elevated cmd prompt, run diskpart, and then run "list disk", do you see it listed there?
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  3. Posts : 4
    Windows Premium 64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    yes
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  4. Posts : 3,960
    W7 x64
       #4

    Is it visible in Windows Disk Management? And showing as correctly formatted?
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #5

    Go into Disk Management and format it there. It probably has no drive letter yet. And probably also no defined partition.
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  6. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #6

    Well, I'd say "beaten to it", but twice? Man, I'm losing my touch . +2 - if it shows up in diskpart, it simply hasn't been initialized for use on that machine, and disk management (diskmgmt.msc if you want to run it directly from the start menu or run box) should be sufficient, as previously mentioned (twice).
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  7. Posts : 4
    Windows Premium 64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Thanks everyone!
    It did show up in diskpart.

    Format
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  8. Posts : 4
    Windows Premium 64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    how do i format it? back in the day it was format d:/s
    i can't remember how to partition it anymore....56 and .... i forgot....
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  9. Posts : 3,960
    W7 x64
       #9

    In the disk management console right click the volume, choose format... the rest is obvious... :)
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