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  1. 5th Nov 2010 20:00 #1
    peterock
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    I have two drives of the same make and model in my brand new system, one has the OS installed on it, the other doesn't. They were both bare when I bought them. W7 only detects the drive with the OS installed, obviously, however my second drive doesn't show up. BIOS detects it just fine and I tried changing SATA slots, that did not work.

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    Only shows up where ? Windows Explorer ?

    What about in Disk Management ? If it was bare, it may still have to be partitioned and formatted before Windows can use it.
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    The drive is not showing up under "Computer", however it shows in the device manager.
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    You were correct, it needed to be formatted. Thanks for the quick solution. Cheers.
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