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Built new(ish) system, one of the hard drives not being detect

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July 8, 2013 11:36:21 PM

I recent bought a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM and assembled it along with my existing 460 GTX GPU and 3 hard drives. After installing all the motherboard drivers, installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 home 64bit, and updating the drivers for the GPU I noticed that one of my hard drives wasn't being detected. All of them are being connected via SATA cable but the one that isn't, a Seagate something or other, is connected via a SATA cable BUT is using an IDE to SATA adapter (I have one other IDE drive using an adapter as well but it is being detected)

So far I have checked the BIOS to make sure it was in ACHI, went into Disk Management to make sure it wasn't unpartitioned, and checked to make sure the cables where plugged in snugly. None of this has made the BIOS or Windows recognize the hard drive even though I can clearly hear it turning on when I plug it in.

What should I do?

EDIT:
my hardware specs
ASUS p8b75-v motherboard
Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
WD Blue WD800JB 80GB
Western Digital WD Blue WD10EALS 1TB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus ST3160023A 160GB
GeForce 460 GTX GPU

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July 9, 2013 7:48:38 AM

deco75943531 said:
After you format the hard drive re-partitioning


How am I going to format the disk if I can't even detect it in the BIOS
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a c 958 G Storage
July 9, 2013 4:54:22 PM

try swapping adapters witht he drive that is being detected. if the problem follows the adapter - replace the adapter. If the problem stays with the drive - replace the drive.
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