- Apr 4, 2014
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Hi,
I've just finished building my first rig, and I had the supposedly brilliant idea of buying a SSD solely for booting, and a 1TB HDD for everything else. This is all well and good, and I installed Win7 Pro on the SSD without a problem. However, Windows doesn't recognize the other drive. The drive is functional, and BIOS recognizes it, but I can't access it in Windows.
Overall, though, I realize I have no clue what I'm doing, what UEFI/Legacy means, or IDE/AHCI, or anything at all in the BIOS for that matter.
So my questions are, what do I need to do to have my computer boot off the SSD but use the HDD for storage without prompting? How does BIOS tie into all this? What have I done wrong?
Thanks for any and all help
~~~~~System~~~~~
MB: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Radeon R7 260X
RAM: G.Skill 8GB, single stick
Drives: 1x WD Blue 1TB HDD
1x SanDisk 64GB SSD
OS: Windows 7 Professional (x86)
I've just finished building my first rig, and I had the supposedly brilliant idea of buying a SSD solely for booting, and a 1TB HDD for everything else. This is all well and good, and I installed Win7 Pro on the SSD without a problem. However, Windows doesn't recognize the other drive. The drive is functional, and BIOS recognizes it, but I can't access it in Windows.
Overall, though, I realize I have no clue what I'm doing, what UEFI/Legacy means, or IDE/AHCI, or anything at all in the BIOS for that matter.
So my questions are, what do I need to do to have my computer boot off the SSD but use the HDD for storage without prompting? How does BIOS tie into all this? What have I done wrong?
Thanks for any and all help
~~~~~System~~~~~
MB: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Radeon R7 260X
RAM: G.Skill 8GB, single stick
Drives: 1x WD Blue 1TB HDD
1x SanDisk 64GB SSD
OS: Windows 7 Professional (x86)
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