Need help, new backup drive doesn't show in My Computer

[jfelano]

I just replaced a backup hdd with a larger drive (Win7)

The new drive shows up in device manager and in the bios but it does not show up as a drive in "My Computer".

Please help.

Thanks

 

[DominionSeraph]

Can you see it in Disk Management? (Administrative tools)

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...oddocs/en-us/dm_initialize_disk.mspx?mfr=true

(don't know 7. Sorry)

 

[jfelano]

I'm sorry but I looked at your link and I'm stumped on #1 lol, what is "computer management"?

I don't really know 7 either, I built this machine for a friend and trying to upgrade her backup drive. The new Western Digital drive shows up in the bios and in device manager, but I can't use it to do a backup because it does not show in "My Computer".

 

[DominionSeraph]

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/22069.aspx
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/68631.aspx

 

[jfelano]

Thanks bro, that's exactly what I needed.

How ridiculous is it that in this day and age you have to initialize a drive that windows already see's in device manager and bios to get it to work?

Thanks again

 

[DominionSeraph]

How ridiculous is it that in this day and age you have to initialize a drive that windows already see's in device manager and bios to get it to work?

And it's horribly unintuitive, too. When I tried to install my BiL's Spinpoint F3 I got all the way to Disk Management but still couldn't figure it out on my own -- turned out that you have to click on the graphic of the drive while I was only trying the listing in the top panel. They're two representations of the same damned drive! Why the hell is "initialize" only offered in one?

We've gone a couple steps backwards from DOS in this respect.