Missing Hard Disc Drive.

[jules]

I recently bought an old HP Z210 Workstation (Xeon E3 1270, 3.4Ghz, 8Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD, 2TB HDD, Quadro 2000). The 2TB drive doesn’t show up under Computer/Drives, only the SSD. However the 2Tb HDD is listed under device manager and shows as working properly.
(As an iMac user for 15 or so years, this reminds me why I went with mac in the first place. However, software availability/functionality and lack of hardware upgradeability are forcing the shift.)
Any advice or suggestion greatly appreciated.
Cheers
jules

[jmarket]

What operating system are you using?

[jules]

Hi Gus,
Windows 7. I found another post which helped solve the issue. Any tips on moving files/folders from ssd to hdd.

[jmarket]

Windows inbuilt file manager, or any of the zillion third party ones will copy or move files between drives easily, or if you wish you could use a file sync application to do it.

As you had asked the question about the missing drive would you care to share the solution you found as it may help others?

[jules]

The solution I found:
Start Menu - (Windows button) -
Type: Disk Management - Enter -
A new window opens “Disk Management”. The top half of window listed the various disks/drives and their details. The lower section had clickable dialogue boxes. Disk 0: was already partitioned: 100MB ‘System Reserved’. The next partition was unallocated - double clicking oped a window that allowed me to give it a location (F:\ in this case) (as I had usb’s plugged in) D was missing for some reason. But F worked and gave it a name ‘HDD’ (creative , I know). Apply. OK. Now it shows up and ready for use.