Dv7-6b51ea 2nd hdd size

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I have a dv7-6b51ea, UK model. Its original 1TB drive started clicking.. so finished. I have replaced the main drive with a 250gB SSD drive and reinstalled win7 64 bit. All this works very well and is very fast to boot and run.
Having been in the back I noticed a 2nd drive bay slot, I have purchased a 1TB hybrid seagate drive for that slot and have installed it with cable.
The first time I booted windows, it saw the drive and said that the new hardware was ready to use.
Unfortunatly windows can not see the drive.
I have reinstalled all the current drivers from the HP support site and flashed the bios from the windows application.
Can you help shed some light on this please?
Thank you in advance.
Wayne
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Hi Wayne,
You may just need to format the new HDD - try the following.
Hold down the Windows Key and press R. Into the Run Box type compmgmt.msc and hit enter. Click Disk Management in the left pane and let the drives load up. Right click on your new HDD and select Format to start the Wizard. Windows 7 will assign a Volume Label so if your happy with this, just leave the default one. File system is normally NTFS. Allocation Unit Size should be left as the default value. Select the option to perform a Quick Format if it is not already selected. Leave any other settings as default and click Ok and Ok again to start the process.
When this has completed, your new HDD should now appear when you look under Computer.
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