Setting up OS Drive and Data Drive

[tmc8295]

I have installed my operating system onto an SSD and just a few programs that I want running on it.
My plan was to then setup a second drive strictly for data as so many people have, as I just built my new rig and intend to be playing MANY games so I need the extra storage...... BUT the second drive is not showing up anywhere for me to format, it shows up in the BIOS as a SATA device and under the boot options as a boot device..... but I need to format it to use it and I can't find anywhere to do so!!!

Someone help!

Thanks!!

 

[BK_123]

Have you gone into disk management and initialized it?

 

[tmc8295]

I swear if I forgot to do that I will shoot myself.

The story is that I had a different drive originally but the one I was shipped was defective so I am going into this a bit annoyed already! Will report back in a few minutes

 

[tmc8295]

Alright, this time I set it as MBR and am getting a "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

Think I should give GPT a shot?

 

[tmc8295]

Ya I got the same error..... Anyone have any ideas?

 

[tmc8295]

Now it says it is not even connected...

 

[BK_123]

That error means that your data could be corrupt, Follow the steps in this guide How to Fix a Cyclic Redundancy Check Error: 9 Steps - wikiHow

 

[tmc8295]

Thing is it is a brand new drive, nothing is on it yet.
Havent even been able to format it to use it with my system

 

[BK_123]

What happens when you try to format it?

 

[iPwn]

That error means that the data doesn't match the 'directory' of files, there's no partition(s). As above, format it (quick works fine).