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I just recieved a 1tb I ordered off newegg, I already have a harddrive but its only 150gigs i pulled off a junk comp so i was looking to upgrade. I cant get windows to recognize it. Iv tryed to mess around with the bios settings and got nowhere. It recognizes it in bios btw and in device manager. Is there a driver or firmware i need to install? Hard drive came with nothing.
Heres the harddrive I bought
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Computer Specs
1 x GIGABYTE GA-990XA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
1 x ASUS EAH6770/DI/1GD5 Radeon HD 6770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
1 x AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX
1 x G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR
1 x COOLER MASTER GX Series RS650-ACAAE3-US 650W ATX12V v2.31 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
1 x COOLER MASTER Elite 430 RC-430-KWN1 Black Steel / Plastic Computer Case
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I don't think you'll need any hardware, but, I could be wrong.
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just sounds like an incompatability issue, it could be down to the manufacturer or something completley different, your best bet is to google the issue your having with the name of your hdd.
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If I understand what you mean, The HDD is recognised but you can't use it? Well that's what happened to me when I got a new 2TB HDD.

Try this : Start>type in "computer management" > device manager > Drives and the drive should be there. If I can remember correctly you have to format it or something. Right click on it and you'll see options on what to do. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
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-vR-Matas- wrote If I understand what you mean, The HDD is recognised but you can't use it? Well that's what happened to me when I got a new 2TB HDD.

Try this : Start>type in "computer management" > device manager > Drives and the drive should be there. If I can remember correctly you have to format it or something. Right click on it and you'll see options on what to do. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Yea i figured it out finally after searching for at least an hour. I plan on getin a 120gb ssd hopefully soon for os and this one for storage.
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