If by some chance however you are trying to install a new hard drive into an ancient/legacy system and you can’t get it to work, bear in mind that this could be needed. Fortunately, things have progressed and this is hardly ever needed on modern systems or even those of the past 15 years! For this reason, I’m not going to cover anything related to BIOS/UEFI in this post. From within the BIOS/UEFI, you would historically have had to enable the new drive, and even provide the system with some technical information about it (number of cylinders, number of heads, etc) before it would work. Below are instructions for both Microsoft Windows and Linux.Īs a side note, in years gone by, it used to be necessary to enter the system’s BIOS or UEFI after installing a new hard drive. The process you need to follow will depend on the operating system that you’re running. The steps are actually quite straightforward. If this all sounds foreign to you then don’t worry. In brief, once a new hard drive is installed, it needs to be partitioned, and those newly created partitions then need to be formatted. Similarly, if your “new” drive isn’t actually new (perhaps you bought it second-hand, or it was a gift from a friend who’s upgrading his storage), you may find that it’s already partitioned and formatted, so again, you may extract limited value from this post.
If instead, you are removing your existing drive and replacing it then this post will be of limited help. To be clear, we’re going to cover what needs to be done after installing a brand new, additional hard drive into your system.
With that said, there are still a few steps that need to be performed after installing a new hard drive. The process of adding a second, third, or even fourth hard drive is a lot simpler than in years gone by. For most people, the best way to increase their free storage space is to install an additional hard drive into their PC. If you’re a data-hoarder, the thought of deleting any data once your hard drive is full probably fills you with a sense of terror (rightly so!). 4.3 Formatting the new partition with mkfs.4.2 Partitioning the new disk with cfdisk.4.1 Getting the ID of the new disk with lsblk.3.1 Confirm that the new hard drive isn’t showing.
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