help with wd 3tb hdd

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Dimmy

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so i plug it up and boot up, i get into windows (7 64 bit) device manager sees it but it does not turn up in my computer where my other hdd's are at

how can i get this thing to recognize, im just using it for mass storage secondary drive basically to dump movies on for plex

cpu/mainboard as follows
amd x3 720be
msi 790fx
 
if you right click on 'Computer' under your start menu or on your desktop and go to 'Manage' it should open your management console.
On the left side click on 'Disk Management' and it should list the drives. pick the one you just added from the list and there should be either an option for 'Initialize disk' or 'Create Partition'
Let me know if that worked for you
 
so i plug it up and boot up, i get into windows (7 64 bit) device manager sees it but it does not turn up in my computer where my other hdd's are at
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This is the expected result for a new internal hard disk that will come unformatted. You will not get a drive letter until you partition the drive and format or at least assign drive letters. You do that in Disk Managment.
 
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