2 Hard Drives

[Case1]

I recenty built a new computer. I put an SSD drive for the operating system and a few other things. I installed a disk drive to put the rest of the stuff on. How do I get the disk drive to pull up so I can put things like Microsoft Outlook on it. It doesn't seem like the disk drive is recognized or something. I can't find it as a choice. Hope this makes sense

Casey

 

[Sedril]

Try using the disk management feature to initialize the disk...

Right click "My computer" select "Manage"... in left side select "Disk Management"... Should be self explanatory from there....

 

[Case1]

Hi Sedril,

I did what you said but I don't see how to initialize the disk...I right clicked on the partition and that wasn't an option.

 

[DocBrown]

Does it show up here ?

 

[DocBrown]

Your 1st HD should be Disk0 & 2nd should be Disk1

 

[Sedril]

Does the drive show up in "My Computer" to where you can copy files to it and such and you're just trying to figure out how to install programs to that drive? Or does the computer just not even recognize the drive at all to where you can't even see it in "My Computer" ?

 

[Case1]

Yes Doc, it does show up there. The SSD is first and the disk drive is second.

 

[Case1]

Does the drive show up in "My Computer" to where you can copy files to it and such and you're just trying to figure out how to install programs to that drive? Or does the computer just not even recognize the drive at all to where you can't even see it in "My Computer" ?

Yes it shows up I am just trying to figure out how to copy things to it.

 

[DocBrown]

Does it show up as formated & healthy, or as unallowcated ?

 

[Case1]

if I knew how to copy a picture of it to the forum I would, it says the SSD drive is the C drive and the disk drive is a new volume

 

[Case1]

here ya go

 

[DocBrown]

You should be able to right click on the blue area of New Volume & open it. Then you can create any new folders that you want to copy & paste to.

 

[Case1]

Hmmm...open is grayed out

 

[DocBrown]

Then choose Change Drive Letter to assign it Drive Letter D: Then it should open

 

[Case1]

Thanks Doc, it did open.

 

[mjf]

Your new disk (disk 1) has become system, active.
I think you are booting through Disk 1 & I doubt this is what you want?
I think you might want disk 0 to be system, active, Boot ?

 

[Case1]

Yes I do want disk 0 to be the boot drive. How do I make sure it is?

 

[Case1]

mjf, I checked the CMOS or BIOS whatever it is, and it said that the SSD drive is Boot 1.

 

[Case1]

Cool! Thanks Doc, I got Microsoft Outlook to go onto the (D disk drive.

 

[DocBrown]

Since your screen snip basically showed D: HD empty. It looks like your Win7 OS is on your C: HD