Windows 11 does not recognize my newly installed second internal hard drive

[montyrexmay]

HP System Diagnostics Utility recognizes the newly connected second 1.82 TB Hard Drive, and states the model number, serial number, and size, but my OS, Windows 11, dpes not recognize or list it. The computer has two bays for adding two hard drives, and the OS does recognize the first hard drive that I installed. Thanks for any suggestions.

Monty May

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

If the drive is brand new, you probably need to initialize the drive using the disk management tool in Windows.

Initialize new disks | Microsoft Docs

[montyrexmay]

The Disk Management tool was tried and it worked perfectly. Thank you for your reply.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.