New build storage drive issue. Plz help

[pirred908]

I just put together a new PC today(writing this post on it) and I'm not seeing my stroage drive(Samsung F3) listed in the "My Computer" folder. I installed Win7 on my SSD and wanted to use the F3 for storage. I can see the drive listed in the BIOS and device manager. Any ideas why i might not be able to access it? I have 6 SATA ports. 2 of them are 6gbs. I tried it in a few different slots(master vs slave), but no luck. Any ideas? Thank you

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall

 

[jim53]

I just put together a new PC today(writing this post on it) and I'm not seeing my stroage drive(Samsung F3) listed in the "My Computer" folder. I installed Win7 on my SSD and wanted to use the F3 for storage. I can see the drive listed in the BIOS and device manager. Any ideas why i might not be able to access it? I have 6 SATA ports. 2 of them are 6gbs. I tried it in a few different slots(master vs slave), but no luck. Any ideas? Thank you

Did you format the drive.
You can't just plug it in, windows won't recognize it.
Same thing happened to me. Once formated it appeared under computer.

 

[LostPassword]

In administrative tools, there's a storage tool that lets you manage your drives. If it sees it, then you can format there

 

[Anomaly1964]

These are the instructions Bankster gave me to format my Samsung F3, 1 TB drive...

O.K. lets make 2 pri ~460GB ea base 2

Go to command prompt:

diskpart
sel dis 0 (the one that is NOT your SSD, you can tell by size)
cre par pri size=500000
format fs=ntfs quick label="DSK2_VOL1"
cre par pri
format fs=ntfs quick label="DSK2_VOL2"

Reboot...

Right click make DVD "P"
Then make first Samsung VOL 1 "D"
VOL2 "E"

 

[pirred908]

@jim53: no i have not formatted the drive. how do i go about doing that?

@lostpassword: i see the tool in there. not sure exactly how to use it. can you give me more details?

 

[pirred908]

also, under the "disk managment" is says the drive in unallocated. not sure what that means.

 

[pirred908]

got it figured out. feel kinda dumb hehe. thanks for your help guys.

 

[betasub]

Congratulations, you've made it through the maze to Disk Management. Now right click on your unallocated drive to choose options for formating and drive letter allocation.

 

[mfenn]

These are the instructions Bankster gave me to format my Samsung F3, 1 TB drive...

O.K. lets make 2 pri ~460GB ea base 2

Go to command prompt:

diskpart
sel dis 0 (the one that is NOT your SSD, you can tell by size)
cre par pri size=500000
format fs=ntfs quick label="DSK2_VOL1"
cre par pri
format fs=ntfs quick label="DSK2_VOL2"

Reboot...

Right click make DVD "P"
Then make first Samsung VOL 1 "D"
VOL2 "E"

Wow, talk about doing things the hard way. You should listened to my advice in the thread where I showed you how to do it in like 5 clicks and no reboot!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall

Almost certainly not relevant in this case.

Looks like the OP got it figured out.