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ADDED 2ND HARD DRIVE - IT DOESNT SHOW UP UNDER MY COMPUTER - I DONT KNOW IF ITS FORMATTED OR NOT -CAN I GET SOME DIRECTIONS ----THANKS

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How did you add it? Where did you get the hard drive mounting hardware? In any event, assuming you installed a hard drive you purchased, out of the box it would be blank and needs to be initialized (mounted) and formatted. Find Computer or This PC in the menu and right click...choose manage, disk management and you will see a visual representation of the hard drives. It may prompt you automatically to initialize the new disk. Once you do that, and format to ntfs and assign a drive letter and name for the volume it will appear in Computer as a lettered drive. 

 

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000588.htm

 

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How did you add it? Where did you get the hard drive mounting hardware? In any event, assuming you installed a hard drive you purchased, out of the box it would be blank and needs to be initialized (mounted) and formatted. Find Computer or This PC in the menu and right click...choose manage, disk management and you will see a visual representation of the hard drives. It may prompt you automatically to initialize the new disk. Once you do that, and format to ntfs and assign a drive letter and name for the volume it will appear in Computer as a lettered drive. 

 

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000588.htm

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

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