I bought a Seagate HDD and thought it would be just simple plug and play. 

Its an IronWolf 8 TB Internal HDD listed as NAS 3.5 inch SATA 6Gb/s, 7200 RPM 256 MB cache for RAID network attached storage.

Is this drive somehow ONLY for use in a special context related to networking and RAID?  I just thought it would work as a stand alone drive for data storage?

Is there something special I need to do to get this puppy working?  My reading says that I should be able to use this drive simply for data storage just like any other drive.

Bryan

 

Edited October 27, 20205 yr by 1st fltsimguy

Did you try diskmanager https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html 

Is it seen in the BIOS? 

 

1 minute ago, Jude Bradley said:

Did you try diskmanager https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html 

Is it seen in the BIOS? 

 

I'm using Win7 Pro....and I went to Disk Manager thinking that I would see it and format it, but nothing is showing.  Trying to figure out if there is something else I need to do to get it to recognize it.

Its an internal drive plugged into a SATA case, then USB 3.0 plugged to my PC

8 minutes ago, Jude Bradley said:

Did you try diskmanager https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html 

Is it seen in the BIOS? 

 

YEAH FIXED IT.

I had it plugged into a USB Hub 10 ports all 3.0, and I re plugged it into the back of the PC and somehow it was happy, pulled it up on my disk manage list as allocated.  I assigned a new letter and formatted.  Presto.

Thanks for you contribution.

Bryan