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New HD only shows in 'Device Manager'?

Graphicool1
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Posted March 4, 2013 at 3:56PM

Windows 7

This seems to be a chicken and an egg situation.

I bought a new SATA HD and cloned my old C HD to it making the new HD the C drive. The old HD is unallocated (no drive letter).

The Device Manager sees it and says it's working properly? Acronis also sees it...

"A blank disk drive has been found. do you want to prepare the disk for data and if necessary, copy your files to it. - 'Yes' or 'No'?"

If I click 'Yes' and pick the drive in question it gives me two choices:

(1) - Initialize disk in MBR layout (disk will use Master Boot Record (MBR) layout.

(2) - Initialize disk in GPT layout (disk will use GUID Partition Table(GPT) layout.

The first time I chose the (GPT) layout, because the master C disk is MBR. But when my Computer didn't see it, I did it again, this time I chose (MBR). But the PC still doesn't see it?

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Graphicool1

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Posted March 4, 2013 at 4:43PM

SOLVED (surfed the net)

"In Windows 7 go to:

Start-->Control Panel-->System and Security-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Disk Management

Your external drive should be shown there.

Right-click on it and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths...". Select "Change..." and give it a drive letter from the list."

I'd click on a tick, but there aren't any ticks to click!?

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Graphicool1

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Posted March 4, 2013 at 4:44PM

Refreshed the page and now I can see one...

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted March 4, 2013 at 7:08PM

Is this a record? One thread, three posts, one poster, problem solved? ;-)

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northumbria61

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Posted March 4, 2013 at 8:29PM

Definitely a Record !!

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