Computer Management-Upgraded Internal Secondary Hard Drive

Looking at the OP's Attachements, looks like the 1tb drive is still formatting ? I do not know when he took the screen shot, but until its formatted he's not going to be able to use it.

Caledon Ken said:

Hi Sichuan.

Did you get this resolved?

Can I ask why you mark your new drive "Active"?

Thank you for the reply, Ken. I appreciate it. Yes, I did get it solved but it had nothing to do with any expertise on my part. I simply rebooted the next day and the unformatted drive, the one that said "already formatted" when I attempted to format it, disappeared from Disk Management. I don't know how it got there in the first place. The only thing I did was copy the contents of the factory installed second internal drive that was going bad to an external drive, removed the old drive, replaced it with a new drive, did an extended NTFS reformat of the new drive and then copied my external drive contents to the new drive. I've formatted and reformatted drives dozens of time. I don't know what I did wrong this time.

"Why did you mark the new drive "Active"?"

I really don't know. It should be inactive as it is the secondary drive in the laptop. It shouldn't hurt anything if I leave it as is since Windows is going to boot from my OS drive first, even though the second drive is also marked Active. I may change it to inactive, although it really shouldn't matter.

storageman said:

Looking at the OP's Attachements, looks like the 1tb drive is still formatting ? I do not know when he took the screen shot, but until its formatted he's not going to be able to use it.

Thanks for the reply, storageman. I think what happened is that when I first installed the 1TB secondary drive, to replace the 500GB secondary drive that was going bad, I chose to do a quick format. I then decided to do the extended reformat, so in essence I ended up with two listings of the same drive. The one drive listing that should not be there, the one showing that it is still being formatted, was actually already formatted. I have no idea why it showed "formatting". In any event, the "formatting" drive listing that should not have been there disappeared after a reboot the next day. Everything is as it should be, except the secondary drive is marked Active. I may or may not change it to Inactive, since leaving it as it is should pose no problems.

topgundcp said:

Don't know how you go about formatting D: but it does not look right. To fix the problem, open Admin command prompt (Win+X->Command Prompt(Admin)) then copy & paste or type:

diskpart
select disk 1
clean
convert MBR
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=D
select partition 1
inactive

Hello topgundcp. Thank you for your reply. Actually, everything is OK. The drive listing that "doesn't look right" should not have been there in the first place and disappeared after a reboot. The correct D drive listing, marked Active, is functioning properly. I may or may not change it from Active to Inactive. I many or not change it from MBR to GPT. I haven't done any research to determine whether or not my laptop is suitable for GPT.

I have included a new screenshot of Disk Management. You will note that everything is as it should be, with the exception of New Volume (D:) being marked Active instead of Inactive. The only thing I still don't understand is why this new drive D did not get labeled as Disk 1 partition 1, which is the correct labeling for it in Disk Management.