Thank you for your reply/help. I tried those options including downloading everything Asus had to offer twice. After some research I tried switching my bios to optimal default. Rebooted pressing the TAB key I believe sent me to a screen that allowed a memory test. Reminded me of chkdsk. So after the test which showed no errors I rebooted again expecting to go into the bios and make SATA native enabled and to diasable Legacy but I let Windows start all the way instead to check test results and Ta Da. There was my formatted 2nd hard drive ready n waiting. Not sure exactly why this worked but thanks again