Seagate barracude 500gb wont show up

[rmarshall292]

ok i just bought this hdd today and put it in my computer it is detecting it in the bios and in devices, i downloaded the driver for it but it wont show up in my computer


how do i fix this!

btw i have windows 7.


ok just opened up disk management and got it to intialize however, still now showing up

this is what im seeing

it only shows the c driver in the window
however at the botton of the window it shows the seagate drive, it is black and says unallocated

when i right click on it it says

convert to dynamic disk
convert to gpt disk
offline
properties
help

 

[mailpup]

ok just opened up disk management and got it to intialize however, still now showing up

Clarify please. Does this mean you formatted the new hard drive?

 

[rmarshall292]

edit:

got it to work
when i opened up disk management somehow got it to intitialize it immeditately restarted and wouldnt boot it told me to insert disk so i restarted went into bios reset the settings then, was able to load up windows again clicked on my seagate drivers and it detected the hdd
formatted it and e\verything!!! : D : D : D