new hard drive not being reconised

[boreal scroll]

i have installed a brand new hard drive so that i can store more games but it is not being reconised by my computer and fix?

[white swallow]

ok, did it show in Bios?

is it still an issue?

[little raptor]

if you're talking about explorer, then it shows volumes (they have letters assigned to them C: D: E:, etc)

a volume is a file system on a partition

a brand new hard drive is empty

you need to make your hard drive GPT, then create a partition and format the partition as NTFS

windows should automatically assign a letter to the volume and it'll appear in explorer, you'll be able to then store your games and files

[white swallow]

Windows does not automatically assign a letter if its not formatted.
and it needs to be visible in Bios before you can see it in windows.

[little raptor]

i didn't say that

a volume is a partition with a file system, it means that it's formatted

[night socket]

open disk management and it will prompt you to create a partition and once you do that everything should be fine

[white swallow]

just adding extra information 🙂

[little raptor]

also it doesn't need to be visible in your BIOS

as windows and BIOS might have different ways of accessing the disk

[white swallow]

This is not true, if a drive is not found in bios it means cable wise something is wrong / missing.
this is a mechanical connection nothing to do with drivers.

[little raptor]

it is true

it is entirely possible for that to happen, on more non-standard systems or on systems with lazy firmware engineers

just adding extra information

[night socket]

yes it does

the bios should somewhat detect the drive

if the drive isnt in the bios the chances of the drive not being plugged in correctly/not powered corrrectly is higher,which is a good troubleshooting step

checking the connections

[little raptor]

those 2 things are not connected with each other, therefore they don't

[night socket]

what 💀

[white swallow]

Faulty reasoning

[night socket]

is your hard drive not connected to the motherboard?

[little raptor]

both windows and BIOS access hardware directly, the BIOS might not know how to access the disk, that doesn't prevent windows from accessing it

[white swallow]

Never heard of the OSI model?
Each layer is working on each part of the representation and without the Bios presenting the HDD to your OS, you literally cannot proceed forward with it.

[little raptor]

i can make a BIOS that won't detect any disks at all, that doesn't stop windows from detecting and using them

and this can fully happen on non-standard systems or on systems with lazy engineers

[night socket]

which probably isnt this one

[white swallow]

Thats a very drifferent story, we are talking about consumer level hardware.

[little raptor]

im also talking about consumer level hardware

[night socket]

the point is, checking if the drive is detected in the bios is a good first troubleshooting step

[white swallow]

yeah but the probability this happens is very small, and thats what we are talking about 🤷‍♂️

Unless we got a very exotic home made bios / drive situation happening.

[boreal scroll]

this is all i have and 1 of them is a usb drive

[echo folio]

disk management, not explorer to check if it's being recognised

[white swallow]

ah! an unallocated disk!

allocate it 😄

[little raptor]

yes because you have no volumes on the new drive

a new drive is entirely empty, filled with zeroes

[white swallow]

are you sure its not 1's 😉 ?

[boreal scroll]

how do i do this?

[echo folio]

right click on it

create "new simple volume"

[boreal scroll]

on system reserved?

[white swallow]

no on "Unallocated" the 931.51GB Thats your new Drive!

[echo folio]

on the one that's black

[boreal scroll]

ahh got it

TY GUYS!

[echo folio]

drives don't come pre-formated for use straight away

[white swallow]

yeah as a manufacturer it cannot smell if you want NTFS or EXTFS or ET4! 😄

[little raptor]

don't forget to select GPT if it asks you

don't select MBR

[boreal scroll]

didnt ask me