[Amneamnius]

I just installed W7 in my new build so I can re-install W7 if needed.

Computer management shows the HDD's not populated, so I click the populate button, then whenever I click okay and come back into the same screen it says the drive isn't populated.

BIOS and Disk management shows the drives but these are the only options I have from Disk management. I tried looking around and haven't found anything, sorry if this has an easy solution that I should've seen earlier.

Currently using AHCI for the drives, I had the same problem with just IDE before.

 

[Bazmecc]

you need to format them and create a partition first

 

[Amneamnius]

Thanks for the fast response.
I couldn't find a better way so I just reinstalled W7 and formatted/partitioned my HDD's while doing that.

 

[AMOCO]

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Originally Posted by Amneamnius Thanks for the fast response. I couldn't find a better way so I just reinstalled W7 and formatted/partitioned my HDD's while doing that.

all you have to do,is right click on the ones with the black lines,and click format and give them a drive letter,then your done

 

[ComGuards]

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Originally Posted by Bazmecc you need to format them and create a partition first

The proper procedure (to be technical) is to (1) create a partition and then (2) format the partition.

 

[Bazmecc]

bah, technicallities, smeckticallities...it's 4 in the morning

...and I'm sure I spelt something wrong