Installed a 3Gb hard drive


  1. jpk
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    W7 Ultimate 32bit
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    Installed a 3Gb hard drive


    Windows does not see it. Running Windows 7 64 Ultimate. I have 16Gb's of memory onboard. What do I need to do to get it up and running?
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  3. DocBrown
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    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
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    Hi jpk :)

    Can you give us a full screen snip of Disk Management

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    It may be recognized, but unallowcated & unformatted.
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  4. jpk
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    Fixed problem. Working now. Thanks.
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  6. Boozad
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    Would you mind elaborating? It may help others in future who face the same problem.
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  7. jpk
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    Just went to Disk Mgmt. and formatted the drive. It wasn't showing up originally and I abandoned doing anything about it until the other day. Anyway there it was showing in DM as a 3Tb drive unformatted and listed as drive 0. Fomatted and a letter was assigned, drive K, so now it is operational.
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