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Open Start menu
Click the right mouse button on Computer
On the pop out menu click on Manage
In the left hand menu click on Disk Manage
Your drive should show here if it is plugged in.
Delete all partitions
Now create a partition, format it how you want.
If you recently bought it from a store or online it might just be a bad hard drive which happens. If your bios wont recognize it then it might just be an error with the bios firmware which can be updated from the manufaturers site.
In this case if your laptop runs occasionally sometimes not. The prom the is the faulty cable which is connected to the HDD and CD drive. Try to replace the connector cable with the other one. Check also the BIOS setting of the HDD and CD drive.
I have found that computers 5 years and older often have problems recognizing Terabyte hard drives. If you know what motherboard you have i can look it up for you, but if it is an older computer, the motherboard likely wont support the size.
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