PC not recognizing my hard drive

Meister

I got a new PC, but it can't even see my hard drive when I plug it it. I was using the hard drive with my old mac, so the hard drive still uses the mac file system, but I wanted to reformat it for the new PC. How can I make my PC see the hard drive?

Crashtard

Is the drive set to slave or master? That could very well be the problem.

eternalbl

Is it not seeing it in windows, or the BIOS doesn't detect it?

If its just windows, right click my computer and select manage. Look for Disk management on the left and select it. On the right it'll show all hard drives, including ones with unsupported file systems. From there you should be able to right click the drive and partition/format it.

Meister

Ah, I was able to find it in Disk Management. I had to "initialize" it seemingly. So if I want to reformat the disk with NTFS, do I just right click on the disk in the Disk Management and create new simple volume? Is there anything fancy I need to do?

eternalbl

I haven't used vista enough to know exactly, thankfully there's the Microsoft Knowledge base

Topweasel

Meister wrote: »

Ah, I was able to find it in Disk Management. I had to "initialize" it seemingly. So if I want to reformat the disk with NTFS, do I just right click on the disk in the Disk Management and create new simple volume? Is there anything fancy I need to do?

Make sure You delete the old partition before trying to create a new one.