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BIOS Won't Recognize 2nd HDD

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April 12, 2014 9:38:34 AM

I just finished installing my Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-UP4 w/ A10-7850K CPU.
Installed Windows 7 Pro OS after formating HDD.
Neither the BIOS or OS will recognize my second HDD (Maxtor 200GB SATA) from my old pc.
When I connect it to the new pc the OS will not boot up it goes in to repair mode.
I put the drive back in the old pc and it works fine. It did not contain the old XP OS, just a bunch of videos and files, This drive was partitioned w/ partition magic. Do I need to format it for the BIOS to see it? I hate to lose all the files.
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April 12, 2014 11:20:43 AM

Open the Disk Management utility by right-clicking on the My Computer icon found on the desktop (or Start menu) and selecting “Manage” from the drop down menu as shown below.

The Computer Management console will appear. Click on “Disk Management” in the left-hand panel. Your hard drive may appear as "not Initialized.”

If your old hard drive was used in IDE mode but now you are now using AHCI mode that could also be a problem because the incorrect SATA controller driver is in use.
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April 12, 2014 4:21:51 PM

Calvin7 said:
Open the Disk Management utility by right-clicking on the My Computer icon found on the desktop (or Start menu) and selecting “Manage” from the drop down menu as shown below.

The Computer Management console will appear. Click on “Disk Management” in the left-hand panel. Your hard drive may appear as "not Initialized.”

If your old hard drive was used in IDE mode but now you are now using AHCI mode that could also be a problem because the incorrect SATA controller driver is in use.


It's an SATA drive, doesn't show up in BIOS or on disk managment on new mobo in Windows 7 Pro.
When I connect it to my old pc with XP OS it works.
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April 14, 2014 5:33:51 AM

ISSUE RESOLVED!
HDD is DOA. Put it back in Windows XP pc and checked it with partitioning software.
Entire HDD failed.
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