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? On Adding new HDD - W7, no curr issue, just curious

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fixbsod

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No actual issues here, but I did have a question about this :

So I added a 2TB WD Black SATA 6GBps drive to my system last night as a 2nd'ary HD for storage. Install no prob, boots no prob and shows as detected drive during POST (non uefi) and W7 x64 even installs new drivers. My Computer shows no drive but I can confirm it on Intel's RST. I wound up googling this and determined I needed to run Windows 'disk management' which wasn't prompted on boot and also Microsoft's predictive run bar wasn't finding this when typed but did load when entered.

So after using Disk Management I was able to give the drive a letter and all that jazz and use it just fine. Aside -- is there any way to use D for the 2nd HD? Curr used by BD-ROM and E by external drive as well. Prolly too late as I already gave it G.

My question is why was there no prompt by W7 to load disk management? Is this really 2012 where I have to run specific Windows services just to add a HD? Does everyone already know this and I'm just new to W7?

I swear in XP w/IDE drives it was easier -- add the drive then use fdisk, yeah it was command line but then again XP came out in 2002.
 
fixbsod said:
So after using Disk Management I was able to give the drive a letter and all that jazz and use it just fine. Aside -- is there any way to use D for the 2nd HD? Curr used by BD-ROM and E by external drive as well. Prolly too late as I already gave it G.
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Yes. First (in disk management) change the drive letter of your BD-ROM to F. Then change the WD to D. Then go back and change your BD-ROM to E or whatever other than C or D.

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