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I have a thinkpad t61 6458-CTO I'm running Windows 7 ultimate 64bit and the second hdd in the ultrabay won't show up in windows but it shows up in device manager any ideas?

Did you format the HDD in the Ultrabay?

It doesn't give me the option to format it. Like I said, it only shows up in device manager I tried the add device wizard and still can't get it to show up in windows, I also tried installing it in a hdd dock on my desktop machine and still same thing, I hear it spinning but it won't show up in the drive menu.

urbanguy75 wrote:It doesn't give me the option to format it. Like I said, it only shows up in device manager I tried the add device wizard and still can't get it to show up in windows, I also tried installing it in a hdd dock on my desktop machine and still same thing, I hear it spinning but it won't show up in the drive menu.

Any chance you can upload a screen shot of what's been seen via the Disk Management snap-in but also via Device Manager as well - in addition to that if you download and install the CrystalDiskInfo utility, does it show the HDD in the 2nd HDD Caddy at all?

Most likely you just need to go into disk management and assign it a drive letter. Hit Winkey+R, type "diskmgmt.msc" without quotes in the run dialog, hit enter. While you're there you can also repartition and format.

Also, If you have a "My Computer" icon on your desktop, you can right click it, select manage, then go to disk management. Chances are, the drive needs to be initialized, which also assigns a drive letter as noted above.

I went into the "disk management" utility, I assigned it a drive letter and formatted it and now it works! Thank you all for your help I seem to learn something more every time I visit this forum Thank you again to everyone who replied!

The other method of doing this would be via the command line tool DISKPART, which is ms' abomination of the old FDISK program. I hate DISKPART.