so guys this is a guide that I was inspired to make because one of my
friends bought uh a standalone hard drive and then an enclosure for it and
unlike the pre-done external hard drives like you
know the ones from WD that look like this over here unlike
those these drives when you buy a be Drive it doesn't necessarily come
formatted so rather than walking through it on the phone I decided to just make a
video about how to initialize a brand new drive on your computer once you
plugged it in so I've taken a bar drive here and um yes that is not the most
static safe way to do this but I've done it so I plugged it in Via SATA or uh
Power and SATA data and I'm powering it up with this power supply that's
jumpered totally ghetto setup but whatever and I'm going to show you guys
the steps that are required in order to get your new hard drive recognized by
your computer so the first thing you're going to do do is go to my computer and
that'll be on your desktop if you're running Windows XP and you're going to
go to properties then you're going to go to the device
manager and scan for Hardware changes so
when you scan for Hardware changes I've already done this but it'll it'll bring
up your drive so in this case we're running a a Cate 2 tbte ATA device okay
so that's done the next thing you have to do is right click on computer and
click on manage so when you manage the
computer you want to go to the Disk Management in particular and you're
going to then see aha this message now
if this message doesn't show up then you're going to want to scan down down
down until you find a not initialized drive you right click on the unallocated
space or rather you right click on the not initialized drive and you click
initialize dis select dis okay Master
boot record is correct so okay it takes just a moment to initialize the disc but
you're going to see that in my computer that 2 TB Drive is still not showing up
so what I have to do now is I take that unallocated space and I create a new
simple volume next I want all of it I'm
going to assign the drive letter X for
extreme and then I don't want a label cuz a label is annoying
and next finish so that'll take just a
moment to format and then the computer will detect the drive local dis x two
terabytes and we are done and now now
that I've initialized the disc and formatted it remember these come
initialized and formatted so that's this only applies to a bare disc I can
actually unplug it which I'm going to do
okay so I've unplugged it now if I refresh this it goes away
eventually hold on I can make it go away
device manager action scan for Hardware
changes
H okay well then either way I just
showed you how to initialize and format your new Drive aha there it disappeared
okay we're good we're good so it disappeared now and then when I take it
and I plug it back in you don't have to watch this part it's
okay it will not need me to perform this process again now this applies for USB
drives firewire drives ESAT drives internal sat drives etc etc etc although
us drives are automatically plug in place so you won't need to do that uh
device manager bit there you go it's here it's ready to go thank you for
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