Fix: New Hard Drive not showing up in Disk Management

Windows Troubleshooting
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Originally published at: Fix: New Hard Drive not showing up in Disk Management

Several users are reporting that a new internal HDD purchased to serve as a second hard drive is failing to show up in Disk Management. Most affected users report that even though the new hardware is showing in their BIOS settings, it doesn’t appear inside Disk Management. The issue is not specific to a certain…

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GREAT ARTICLE, storage spaces was the problem from a previous computer. Fixed 2x8TB EXOS
HDD drives. THANK YOU. The comments (some) are helpful as well.

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This was driving me crazy, Method 2 for the win. Thanks :smiley:

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This right here!!!
It worked for me after hours of internet searching.

Thank you

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METHOD 1; if the disk is not showing up anywhere on the computer how do you format it
METHOD 2; none of the ATA channels from the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers menu are showing,what i mean is there is none there to uninstall

REST OF THE METHODS NOT WORKING

PROBLEM — MY HARD DISK WAS FORMATTED WITH MAC and IS NOW NOT SHOWING ANYWHERE ON THE MAC but IT SHOWS THAT IS HAS BEEN CONNECTED WHEN I CONNECT IT TO A WINDOWS COMPUTER BUT IN THE “DEVICE AND PRINTER MANAGEMENT SETTING” BUT THERE’S NO WAY TO OPEN IT OR FORMAT IT.

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Just letting ya all know that Method 6 worked for me. Cheers!

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None of the above ideas work for me.

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Thanks for sharing, added it to the article.

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First verify if it is showing up in bios otherwise try connecting it to another computer.
Secondly, press "Windows’ + “R” to open the Run prompt and type in “mdsched.exe” and then click on “Restart and check for issues” let this complete and check if the issue is fixed.

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#2 - big thumbs up here! Like a charm

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Method 5 worked for me. Thank you so much!!!