windows 8 2nd hard drive not found in windows disk management utility but is correctly identified and found if i F2 boot into the asrock motherboard bios management utility. I am swapping my 2nd data disk from my old xp pc along with its sata data cable so i know disk and cable are working and disk is formatted. I am thinking there is a setting wrong or conflict somewhere like in the old days of com port conflicts. please help
windows 8 2nd disk found in bios but not in windows disk management utility
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But unlike the old days (the days when IDE drives ruled), every SATA device has it's own port and data cable so a conflict is very unlikely.
It's entirely possible for a hard drive to appear in BIOS and boot device options, even though Windows doesn't detect it. Such a situation can occur if, for example, the drive has failed. I know you insist it's a healthy drive, but if it was me I would want to confirm that first with a diagnostic test using the drive manufacturer's DOS-based software which loads from a boot CD.
Links are here for CD Images: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
Link to CD Image for WD hard drive diagnostic testing is here: http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/topic/63494-looking-for-western-digital-data-lifeguard-iso/
It's entirely possible for a hard drive to appear in BIOS and boot device options, even though Windows doesn't detect it. Such a situation can occur if, for example, the drive has failed. I know you insist it's a healthy drive, but if it was me I would want to confirm that first with a diagnostic test using the drive manufacturer's DOS-based software which loads from a boot CD.
Links are here for CD Images: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
Link to CD Image for WD hard drive diagnostic testing is here: http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/topic/63494-looking-for-western-digital-data-lifeguard-iso/
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