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New hard drive can’t be partitioned in disk management

I installed a new hard drive to my computer but it didn’t see the drive. Thus, I went to disk management to format the disk (Disk1 in image). However, the problem is that the disk won’t allow me for the option is grayed out. What should I do?


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  • Hi ganon,

    Thank you for your advice. It did help, but I still want to know why disk management can't do it? 

    Thanks

  • Did the drive show any partitions at all?  Disk management in Windows requires that the disk itself is selected before the format option is available.  If you selected the partition area, the option will be disabled. 

  • Hello darylsonnier,

    Thanks for your explanation! I can't remember whether the drive showed any partition or not then, maybe it showed. Anyhow, my problem gets solved by partition assistant. Like the program!

    Thank you again! I will take care if I encounter such problem in the future.


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