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.