Western digital 3tb 2nd hard drive shows up in device manager but not in disk manger.

Internal wd 30eurs drive shows up in device manager but not disk manager.  Any suggestions on how to format this drive and partition it. I am running windows 7 64bit os

Open the Windows Control Panel and then select Device Manager which allows you to initialize and format new hard drives installed in your system.
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