If you don’t want to read my brilliant literary intro and just want to head to the solution, it’s down a couple of paragraphs.

Since I work with HD video, I need a lot of hard drive space. I’ve been accumulating terabytes of external hard drives, but they make the floors look a mess and they require USB and power chord and power outlet management by a skilled electrician.

So I bought a couple of cheap Seagate 2TB internal hard drives recently and screwed them into the removable drive bays on my desktop. I’m using windows 7 and expected them to be picked up the moment I put the drive bays back in and restarted my computer. But they weren’t recognized by my computer. I looked all over the internet and everything told me to go into the BIOS and set to “auto detect.” I followed all the instructions and still nothing.

Finally I found the solution and thought I would just post it below:

Solution:

This is for adding secondary non boot-able drives only
- First, turn off your computer and physically install hard drive
- Then go to Control Panel, click on System and Security, click on Administrative Tools, and then double click on Computer Management.

On the left, under Storage, click Disk Management.

You will now be able to see the installed disk. It will say “Disk 1″ or something similar, and I think it will say “unallocated” Right-click on the unallocated region, and then click New Simple Volume.

In the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next.

Type the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then click Next.

It’s best to accept the default options, including suggested drive letters, and then finish up.

That’s it. It’s that simple. Caused me two days of google headache.

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