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After the hardware installation is done, the new drive will need to be initialized and formatted in Windows
OS before it can be used.
Please see below the steps to do that:
1) Open
Disk management
tool from Windows OS.
2) Right-click the hard drive marked as "Unknown" and "Not Initialized," and select
Initialize Disk
.
3) Select the partition style:
•
Master Boot Record (
MBR
) for hard drives smaller than 2TB in size.
•
GUID Partition Table (
GPT
) for hard drives larger than 2TB in size.
4) Right-click the Unallocated space, and select the
New Simple Value
option.
5) Under the "Simple volume size in MB" section, leave the
default size
if you're planning to use the
entire hard drive to store files. Otherwise, specify the amount of space in megabytes that you want
to allocate for the partition.
6) Use the "Assign the following drive letter" drop-down menu to select a letter for the new hard
drive.
7) Use the "File system" drop-down menu, and select
NTFS
(recommended for Windows 10).
8) Use the "Allocation unit size" drop-down menu, and select the
Default
option.
9) In the "Value label" field, type a descriptive name for the drive, such as
“
Data_Drive
”.
10) Check the
Perform a quick format
option. If you prefer a full format, clear the quick format
option. Just keep in mind that depending on the size of the drive, it can take hours to finish.
11) Unless necessary, clear the
Enable file and folder compression
option.
After completing the steps, the new hard drive will be initialized, partitioned, and properly formatted.