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O.P. New hard drive problems
I got a new hard drive from Newegg today, when I installed it into my PC I couldn't find it on Vista. It wasn't in the My Computer folder, so I had to go to disk management. It shows up on the bottom panel as "Disk 0" and I've already set it to MBR. However, I cannot format it. I have no idea what's going on, and right now my PC is slower, and it still doesn't show up on My Computer. The HD is hooked up by SATA. Also, it's the 3rd hard drive in my PC at the moment, it's not the primary.

How do I troubleshoot it? Is the hard drive bad?

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Also I know it's the new hard drive on the bottom panel because it says "931.51gb Unallocated" I don't know what happened to 68.49gbs of it but whatever.

Link to new hard drive.

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RE: New hard drive problems
In disk management, right-click and choose "Initialize".
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In disk management, right-click and choose "Initialize".
I already did that :P

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Just noticed the option "new simple volume" anything I should be doing with that?

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RE: New hard drive problems
It won't show up in "My Computer" until it is formatted, I think.

what does it show as the disk's status ? not formatted ?
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It won't show up in "My Computer" until it is formatted, I think.

what does it show as the disk's status ? not formatted ?

Right now all I see is the 3 Disk drives that I already had on my PC in the center-top panel, at the bottom panel I see all my disks (The new disk is marked as disk 0). It says "Basic, 931.51 GB" and "Online". My right click options are "Properties/Help/" and "New Simple Volume"
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It won't show up in "My Computer" until it is formatted, I think.

what does it show as the disk's status ? not formatted ?

Right now all I see is the 3 Disk drives that I already had on my PC in the center-top panel, at the bottom panel I see all my disks (The new disk is marked as disk 0). It says "Basic, 931.51 GB" and "Online". My right click options are "Properties/Help/" and "New Simple Volume"

Make a New Simple Volume.
Aha, thanks. I was kinda afraid to use that option, it's the first time I installed my own Hard drive. Thank you, thank you.
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RE: New hard drive problems
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it says "931.51gb Unallocated" I don't know what happened to 68.49gbs of it but whatever.

marketing tricks and difference between the SI Gigabyte and the Gibibyte, which your computer uses.
Basically, 931.51GiB * 1024 = 953866.24MiB *1024 = 976759029,76KiB * 1024 = 1000201246474,24B. This can also be expressed as 1000 * 10^9B which would be 1000GB or 1 * 10^12B which would be 1TB
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