How to detect your new Hard Disk/drive/hdd? June 14
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Have you install new hard drive and you can’t find it on Windows explorer?, this is common problem when you installing new hard drive its not because windows, it because the new hdd have not been partitioned and formatted, thats why it didn’t appear in windows explorer
So how to fix it?
- On Desktop right click ‘My Computer’ and click ‘Manage’
- In ‘Computer Management’ Window select ‘Disk Management’ (in Left Menu under ‘Storage’
- You can see in there your new hard drive, Disk 0 is usually your old hdd and the bigges number is the new one and there is no label like (c: , d: ) on that hdd yet
- Right click on to your new Hard drive (e.g. Disk 1 unpartitioned space) and select format
- Once you finish format it you should be able see it on your windows explorer and ready to use.
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