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I replaced the second hard drive on my desktop with a new 1TB SATA hard drive. Windows 7 still sees the old IDE drive instead of the new SATA. BIOS shows the primary SATA and the new SATA.
How can I get Windows 7 to show and format the new drive?
2013-07-18 11:41:55
Similar question was posted in Makeuseof Answers and it did solved the problem.See the first part of the answer by visiting the link below -
Why does Windows 7 not recognize my new hard drive?
2013-07-18 09:01:21
The drive will not show up in Windows until it is partitioned and formatted. To do that you can use Disk Manager (located in control panel - administrative tools - computer manager) or any other partitioning application. I personally use the free edition of Paragon Partition Manager (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/).Still, it is not clear to me how you can see the old disk if it is no longer physically attached to the PC.
2013-07-18 07:17:12
go to device manager locate the old hard drive then right click on it choose un-install then reboot