new external harddrive i cannot see it on my computer

[noblegirl]

i have just purchased a sata 3.5 usb sata hdd external hardrive
and it said it was working but i cannot find it anywhere
i have already another partition already in the computer its H
and i need this harddrive to work as H is full
do you have advice to help me step by step to see it or get it to work
thanks
Rach

[Johndoe234]

In Disk Management, assign it a drive letter. Then it'll show up in My Computer.


hard drive parts

[chrisgayle]

If the drive can be seen by device manager but not under My Computer, right click my computer and go to Manage. You can see your hard drive either listed as foreign or not initialized. If foreign, it will give you an option to import and is not initialized, it will allow you to initialize it. This will hand over drive management to the OS and you can be able to see it in My Computer.