After fitting SSD (C: drive) to my Win10 machine I connected the old hard drive as a secondary storage drive.
Win10 does not "see" it!
But Belarc Adviser "sees" the hard drive!
How to force Win 10 to recognise the secondary drive? Simple steps please for a non-techie.
Thanks.
Hi, I hope you formatted the old drive. You could do that by either means below.
When you say Win 10 can't see it, I guess you mean file explorer doesn't show it.
Does Disk Management? (via Windows key + X)
If you still have difficulty accessing it, download and install Minitool Partition Wizard (free)
Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free
which gives you more flexibility.
At any stage please post a screenshot (picture of part of your screen) if that will help (post the picture using the Insert Image icon above your post).
E.g.
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of | Windows 10 Tutorials
Hi there
quick way
on windows menu (windows icon type cmd
then these commands diskpart (2nd window will come up - saves you having to go into admin mode from the start) :
List disk
select disk xxx
assign
exit
where xxx is the number of the secondary disk -- I assume it's formatted OK etc.
the assign will automatically assign it a letter and you should then see windows explorer listing the disk.
Cheers
jimbo
hi there
nothing techie about typing 3 commands
with minitool you have to install the wretched thing and then do what?? if the OP sees the disk but doesn't know how to assign a letter to it.
cheers
jimbo
From Disk Management:
Your 1 TB disk 0 appears as "unallocated" in Disk Management.
It isn't formatted.
You can format it right there in Disk Management with a right click.
Give it a drive letter; it looks like E is available.
Thankyou ignatzatsonic (and everyone else) for your help.
Windows now recognises the added secondary drive.
Last edited by lvr181; 04 Oct 2018 at 16:56. Reason: spelling correction
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