Win 7 not recognizing 2nd drive

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Arkan

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Built a system with (2) hard drives. The primary drive is a 30G SSD drive where the Win 7 O/S is installed on. The 2nd drive is a WD 1 TB drive that I wanted to install all my games on. Problem is, it's not found in Win 7.

When I boot up, it's listed in BIOS.

D/loaded a WD utility called "Western Digital Lifeguard Diagnostics" and that too does not recognize the WD drive.

I'm at a loss, any tips?

TIA
- Arkan
 
Can you try the drive with another pc? If it doesn't work then it's probably DOA.
 
Go into disk management and see if the drive is listed there. You may need to assign a drive letter to it. I had to do so for some reason on my recent SSD Win7 install.
 
Ditto. Disk management has to assign a letter and do high level format before win 7 can see the drive. Make sure you do NOT choose Dynamic prior to format.
 
Yup, had to go into Disk Management and initialize the new drive, then format it.
It's all working now. Thanks for the tips fellas.
 
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