Windows can't recognize my HDD after booting windows

Romenfousek

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Hello everyone, today I finished my computer building project. Everything went well expect HDD. I have a SSD Crucial M500 and Seagate barracuda 1 TB. While was booting windows, HDD was in the select of booting devices, but I have my Windows 8.1 on USB drive. But after Instaling windows on my SSD i can't find HDD in the my computer. I'm using i5-4570 and mobo: Gigabyte
h87-HD3
 

cball1311

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Try leaving the HDD out while installing Windows on the SSD. Make sure SSD is in SATA0 port and that the hard disk interface in the BIOS is set to AHCI. Once you get a successful boot to Windows, shutdown, and install the HDD
 

chargeit

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NP, figured that was your issue. Happy it helped!