New HDD not showing up?

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  1. Saraph

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    Hi, I just recently installed a new Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD and it's not showing up under My Computer? My bios recognizes it, WD Diagnostics recognizes it, and under my device manager I can see it... but in 'My Computer' I cannot? Why would this be?
     
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    You have to format the drive in windows, right click on my computer got to manage and then disk management. There you will see the hard drive with the unallocated space, right click and create a new simple volume and follow the steps..
     
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    Thank you!
     
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    No problem, glad I can help.
     
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