new internal hard drive not recognized

dutyman40kk · 03-02-2009, 04:19 PM

I just bought a western digital 250 gb hard drive and a sata cable to connect it. i opened up my computer and installed it and closed it up. the hard drive is not recognized under the My Computer folder. how can i save things into there for storage?

**raptor_pa** · 03-02-2009, 04:55 PM

The drive needs intitalized and formatted before you can use it. Internal drives are shipped unformatted so it can be used in any OS - Windows - Mac- Linux etc. Assuming you are running windows, right click on my computer select manage, in left pane disk management. You should get the disk initialization wizard - initialize the disk, create a partition using th default and format to NTFS - the disk will now be recognized in my computer

dutyman40kk · 03-03-2009, 06:09 PM

works great thank you!

03-02-2009, 04:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
dutyman40kk Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 33 OS: Windows XP service pack 2	new internal hard drive not recognized I just bought a western digital 250 gb hard drive and a sata cable to connect it. i opened up my computer and installed it and closed it up. the hard drive is not recognized under the My Computer folder. how can i save things into there for storage?

03-02-2009, 04:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,801 OS: XP	Re: new internal hard drive not recognized The drive needs intitalized and formatted before you can use it. Internal drives are shipped unformatted so it can be used in any OS - Windows - Mac- Linux etc. Assuming you are running windows, right click on my computer select manage, in left pane disk management. You should get the disk initialization wizard - initialize the disk, create a partition using th default and format to NTFS - the disk will now be recognized in my computer __________________

03-03-2009, 06:09 PM	#3 (permalink)
dutyman40kk Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 33 OS: Windows XP service pack 2	Re: new internal hard drive not recognized works great thank you!