Need help installing new Hard Drive

[Ravioli]

So i got a new Western Digital Caviar HDD of 500GB (sata). I hooked it up and Windows 7 recognizes it and Initialized it once i went into Disk Management. All the space is marked as Unallocated space, which all new hard drives are. So what i want to do is to create a logical drive and give it a letter (basic storage). As seen in the screenshot, i have done this before with another hard drive. But with this one, it doesnt give me that option when i right-click it. It gives me choices of creating Simple, Spanned, Stripped or Mirrored Volumes (dynamic storage) which i dont want. As it says on Microsoft Tech net:

You can use either basic storage or dynamic storage. Use basic storage, which uses basic volumes, if you want to create partitions and logical drives on the disk or if you want to use the disk with other operating systems.

but it doesnt say HOW to create basic storage. There is no option to convert the unallocated space INTO a usable NTFS HDD. Anyone know what to do? Thanks in advance.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm not sure if this will do anything but go to my computer and right click it and click on format.

 

[Ravioli]

But it doesnt even show up there

I think i might have plugged it into the wrong SATA port. In bios it says that both my SATA hard drives are connected to SATA slot 0 Primary and Secondary. (The new one is the primary, and the old one is Secondary). Should i change the new one to Sata slot 1 instead?
Im using an IDE hard drive as the main one.

EDIT: Nvm it cant be the slot problem, i switched it but i still cant partition.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Create a new simple volume, then format it to NTFS.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Just a bit OT but next HD I'll get is definitely going to be over 1TB.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Also, if Windows cannot detect your new SATA drive, see if Native SATA/RAID/AHCI is enabled (or if Legacy IDE disabled). Windows XP doesn't come with SATA drivers and Vista/7 does not enable them during the install if you didn't need them at the time. You could attempt to install drivers or just switch it to Legacy IDE mode.

 

[Ravioli]

Thanks everyone for trying to help. What i did to solve the problem was to install a third party partition tool, called easeus partition master. It did the job flawlessly. Microsoft needs to step it up with the Disk Manager.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Disk Manager works just fine for me.

 

[VirusType2]

It was already a basic drive. It says so in the image. You needed to create a partition to use it.

I thin you right click the section on the left where it says

Basic
46,75 GB
Online

then you get the menu you were looking for.

I don't know. you have to play around with it. I don't like it much either but it does the job.

 

[Ravioli]

Yeah i tried that, but it wouldnt give me an option to partition. I read up about it and it seemed other people had the same problem. But it was fixable with 3rd party tools.

 

[VirusType2]

haven't tried win 7 but that looks just like Win XP. That's not necessarily a good thing.

glad you got it working.

 

[huntingbear]

Create a new simple volume, then format it to NTFS.

what he said

 

[Asus]

The part about formatting and giving it a letter comes after. All you needed to do was select Simple volume (partition). It should ask the size (or use the full space) then format and assign drive letter.
From MS, simple volume = primary partition.

Unless you planned on putting on an old OS to see the HDD then a dynamic volume instead of basic volume is fine.

 

[VirusType2]

I've heard nothing but bad things about Dynamic volumes. A Basic volume would be my recommendation in any case.

 

[Kadayi]

what he said

Indeed. Exactly this.