New WD HDD 1T shows being used

[Kjarkas84]

Hi guys this is my first time here thanks for your time, straight to the point. I bought a new black WD and it shows in windows (84.1 free out of 9.99) and I haven't placed anything there yet its out of the box. I checked if it was shadow copy and the drive is not used in restore. Tried checking if there are any hidden files and nothing.. when I unchecked the protected OS files it shows 2 folders I will add a picture in the post. They don't seem to be the problem, I would really appreciate any kind of help thank you again !!

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protected OS files

D:Games shows used but nothing inside

[falther]

Looks like you mix up the physical / logical drives respectively the partitions and their naming

In my opinion you have 1x 320GB hdd = C: + D:
plus (the new ?) 1TB hdd = E:

D: with only 85MB for gaming data is definitely a nonsens ....

Disconnet the new drive and restart your system to check the drives/partitions again.
I bet that the E: drive disappeared.

If thats the case, you should use the E: drive for gaming data (and rename it).

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[jermy]

Disconnet the new drive and restart your system to check the drives/partitions again.

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access Disk Management and see whats going on

[fzabkar]

@Kjarkas84, can you show us the SMART report for the 1TB drive? In particular check the Power On Hours count.

223GiB = 240GB

Is that an SSD?

[Kjarkas84]

Looks like you mix up the physical / logical drives respectively the partitions and their naming

In my opinion you have 1x 320GB hdd = C: + D:
plus (the new ?) 1TB hdd = E:

D: with only 85MB for gaming data is definitely a nonsens ....

Disconnet the new drive and restart your system to check the drives/partitions again.
I bet that the E: drive disappeared.

If thats the case, you should use the E: drive for gaming data (and rename it).

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Yeah I dont get how my drive shows 99.9 MB its showing the wrong capacity so I am going to follow your step; fzabkar and Jermy's then Ill post my results thank you so much!

[Kjarkas84]

Ok sorry for the incomplete info this is what I had installed in the first pictures
SSD240
an Old 1TB HDD
WD Black 1TB(new)
flash Drive 30gb
I disconnected the New 1TB and the Flashdrive from computer, so now C= is my SSD 240GB it appears as ''223GB'' not 240 I have this as my main Boot drive, D:/ seems like its a partition because I only have a gig there and when I click in there ''nothing'' (Shadow Copies)? then the ''E'' its my old HDD. Here is the S.M.A.R.T info with the SSD and Old 1TB installed (Picture#1)

So after that I reinstalled the new HDD and here is the SMART with all 3 Drives Installed See picture.
Note that in my computer the new drive does not appear does that mean that I used a wrong sata input?
Is D:/ a partition?

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All 3 drives

After uninstalling new drive and removing flash drive, only the flash drive stopped showing D still there

with only SSD240 and Old 1 TB

[Kjarkas84]

Here is Disk Management

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[fzabkar]

You need to partition and format the new drive.

Plenty of howtos at the HDD manufacturers' web sites ...

As for your SSD ...

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=240+GB+in+GiB

[Kjarkas84]

You need to partition and format the new drive.

Plenty of howtos at the HDD manufacturers' web sites ...

As for your SSD ...

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=240+GB+in+GiB

After doing what you said I found the new drive in Disk Mngr, it was a little tricky because the actual drive didn't show up in the list but finally found it in the bottom preview area. So now its ready to go, Thank you all for your support!!!!

[hhddrec]

Good Job Fran!!

[data-medics]

I don't know how you're able to work with that all black color scheme. Just looking at those pictures is enough to make my eyes go crazy.

[Kjarkas84]

I know haha I like the dark theme it makes my eyes less fatigued. Once again I thank you all for your help my computer is now working correctly and I have installed some Games in the HDD's here is a pix

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