second hard drive

I have added a second hard drive on my laptop, it appears in the HP software before starting but not in 'windows' (8.1) I can here it turn on from time to time but that's it. How can I get windows to see the drive

Hello

In this case, try the following.

I still can't see the images you have uploaded, but assuming your SSD is listed as disk 0 and the second drive as disc 1 (let me know if this isn't correct), then follow these steps.

Open a command prompt and enter the following commands.

DiskPart Press enter

select disk 1 Press enter

Press own entry

When it finished, type exit, press ENTER, and then type exit and press ENTER again.

Open again disk management and you should now power click with the right button on the 2nd HARD drive and select initialize disk.

Once completed, just format the HARD drive as described in my first post.

Kind regards

DP - K

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