Can't Find my WD Caviar Black 1TB (Already Looked at the Sticky)

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Ok so I just installed my WD Black and connected everything (SATA III 6GB/s and power) and it isn't showing up in the BIOS or computer management and I'm pretty worried. My motherboard is the Asus Maximus VI Hero. Any suggestions?
 
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The hard drive might be dead. try installing it in a different computer to see if the motherboard detects it in BIOS. When the system is powered on, is the hard drive spinning along with it or is there nothing at all? If everything is properly plugged in (power/sata cable) and the hard drive isn't spinning, chances are the drive is toast or SATA cable is defective.
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The hard drive might be dead. try installing it in a different computer to see if the motherboard detects it in BIOS. When the system is powered on, is the hard drive spinning along with it or is there nothing at all? If everything is properly plugged in (power/sata cable) and the hard drive isn't spinning, chances are the drive is toast or SATA cable is defective.
 
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I don't exactly have access to a secondary PC and I highly doubt it's dead.
 
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I'll try.
 
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It's spinning, but still a no show in computer management.
Edit: and the BIOS :/
 
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do you have a spare hard drive lying around that you can test to see if the motherboard might be defective? When you tried the hard drive on each of the SATA ports, is the system still unable to detect the hard drive?
 
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I've only tried the drive on one other port and I'm certain my mobo isn't defective because I have 2 working SSDs installed.
 
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if you tried it with a different SATA cable and it's still not being detected, then your hard drive is defective. Sure if power is getting to the drive and the hard drive spins, there might be internal damage in the drive itself rendering the system unable to detect the hard drive. If the hard drive is under warranty, go through Western Digital's Replacement service page and get the drive RMA'd.
 
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Ok I'll probably do this after testing all the SATA ports and a different cable.
 
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Even if the drives are in a software RAID configuration, the individual drive should still be detected, no?
 
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