Why New Hard Drive is not Showing up in Disk Management?

If the SATA cable linked with the new hard drive is damaged, the hard drive will not receive any system order. Then, it cannot be shown in Disk Management.

Steps:

① Restart the computer and enter into BIOS. Try to press F (F2, F4, F8, F10, F12) key or DEL key (only for Dell), or check the computer instruction to enter.

② In BIOS, go to the Boot tab (or Boot Device Priority). Check whether the new installed hard drive is showing up or not. If it is visible, shut down the computer and change the SATA cable and the port.

③ After that, start the computer and check whether it is visible in Disk Management.

If you add a new SSD to the computer, the wrong storage controller protocol may conflict with the installed drives. Generally, AHCI driver is suitable for SSD. Please change to AHCI mode if it is not.

Steps:：

① Restart the computer. Then, press the hot key (F2/F10) to enter BIOS.

② In BIOS, find the options including SATA, IDE and AHCI. Then, change the mode from IDE to AHCI in the option [Configure SATA as].

The Lenovo user can press F1 to enter BIOS, and then select [Devices] > [ATA Drives Setup] > [Configure SATA as] > [AHCI]. Finally, press F10 to save the setting and exit.

③ After that, restart the computer. Remember to enter into Safe Mode at first. If the computer is forced to shut down once to three times, the system will go into recovery environment. Then, select [Troubleshoot] > [Advanced options] > [Startup settings].

④ Click [Restart] to go the next step. Then, press [4] to select and enter into Safe Mode. Finally, reboot the computer in routine. If the step is successful, the mode has been changed from IDE to AHCI.

This solution is suitable for the faulty storage controller. Please ensure the network connection is well during this process.

① Press [Win + r] to open Run. Then, type and run [devmgmt.msc] to open Device Manager.

② Expand [Storage controller]. Right-click at it and select [Update driver].

③ In the following window, click [Search automatically for updated driver software]. Then, Windows will search your computer and the Internet for the latest driver software and install.

④ Go back Disk Manager. Then, update [IDE ATA/ATAPI controller].

Note: You can download and install the correct driver software from the main board suppler.

⑤ Finally, check whether the problem has been solved. If not, try the next solution.

Creating storage space is beneficial to make room for the new hard drive. Such space supports different hard drives. Yet, according to users’ feedbacks, the newly installed hard drive disappears from Disk Management once it is added to the public storage space. To solve this problem, you need to delete the hard drive in the storage pool.

Steps:

① Press [Win + R] to open Run. Then, type and run [control] to open Control Panel.

② Select to view by [Small icons] and click [Storage spaces].

③ In the storage pool, delete the new hard drive. After that, restart the computer.

④ Finally, open Disk Manager to check whether the hard drive is showing up or not.

The hard drive will not perform well all the time as time goes by. In case of data loss, we should back up data termly. Otherwise, the data will be lost once the system gets corrupted or the hard drive is faulty. However, Renee Undeleter can recover all lost data.

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① Select [Whole Partition Scan]. In this function, the data can be recovered from the damaged drives as much as possible.

② Select the target drive and click [Next] to go on.

③ Then, the drive will be scanned. The scan time depends on the capacity of the drive. If it is large, it should be scanned for a long time.

④ Finally, the results will be listed at the left pane. Double-click at them to preview and check the target files. Then, click [Recover] to save them.