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Drives Aren't Recognized After Re Routing PSU Cables

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June 30, 2014 11:42:30 AM

My 2nd HDD and my external Optical Drive aren't being recognized by Windows after Re routing my PSU Cables. My HDD is plugged up to the same PSU Cable as my SSD and my external Optical Drive works on my Laptop. What did I do wrong?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 11:58:17 AM

Not much you can do wrong. Each drive should have sata power and data cables connected. Double check all of your connections.
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June 30, 2014 12:03:36 PM

reedo_43 said:
Not much you can do wrong. Each drive should have sata power and data cables connected. Double check all of your connections.
My BIOS is Recognizing my Asus Optical Drive but Windows is not.

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June 30, 2014 12:10:46 PM

reedo_43 said:
Not much you can do wrong. Each drive should have sata power and data cables connected. Double check all of your connections.
I took out my CMOS battery for a minute because my Windows Clock wasn't holding the right values. Does that have something to do with it?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 12:16:15 PM

Absolutely! If you clock isn't holding it's time, your cmos battery needs replacing. It is a cr2032. You can get them almost anywhere. If the battery is bad it will cause more havoc that just loosing time. Good luck!
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June 30, 2014 12:18:17 PM

reedo_43 said:
Absolutely! If you clock isn't holding it's time, your cmos battery needs replacing. It is a cr2032. You can get them almost anywhere. If the battery is bad it will cause more havoc that just loosing time. Good luck!
My Windows Clock is working now but does my CMOS Battery being bad have something to do with my problems?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 12:34:33 PM

One of the functions of the battery is to keep all of your hardware settings in memory, if it goes bad or is going bad it can loose this info. Do you even see the asus in device manager? It's a $2.00 risk! I would definitely replace the battery.
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June 30, 2014 1:02:54 PM

reedo_43 said:
One of the functions of the battery is to keep all of your hardware settings in memory, if it goes bad or is going bad it can loose this info. Do you even see the asus in device manager? It's a $2.00 risk! I would definitely replace the battery.
i don't see my Asus External Optical Drive in Device manger or the 2.5" HDD I just installed in Disk Management Either. Was i suppose to reset the values in The BIOS? Is it just a plug in play fix?

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June 30, 2014 1:34:31 PM

reedo_43 said:
One of the functions of the battery is to keep all of your hardware settings in memory, if it goes bad or is going bad it can loose this info. Do you even see the asus in device manager? It's a $2.00 risk! I would definitely replace the battery.
I replaced the CMOS battery and reset the CMOS http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLa.... That didn't fix my problem.

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June 30, 2014 3:02:58 PM

reedo_43 said:
One of the functions of the battery is to keep all of your hardware settings in memory, if it goes bad or is going bad it can loose this info. Do you even see the asus in device manager? It's a $2.00 risk! I would definitely replace the battery.
I replaced my CMOS battery while I was Re routing my PSU Cables which means I unplugged them and plugged them back in. Is that a contributing factor here?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 3:19:52 PM

Should be plug and play. Make sure all of you ports are enabled in the bios or you could try changing ports.
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June 30, 2014 4:48:30 PM

reedo_43 said:
Should be plug and play. Make sure all of you ports are enabled in the bios or you could try changing ports.
I loaded up my BIOS SATA Settings and I didn't see any HDD just my SSD. What does this mean?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 4:56:25 PM

is your hard drive spinning up?
And what about the optical
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June 30, 2014 5:09:55 PM

reedo_43 said:
is your hard drive spinning up?
And what about the optical
I have a 2.5" & 3.5" HDD. They both don't spin up and are not recognized by my Motherboard but my Motherboard does recognize my Optical Drive but Windows doesn't. Does this information help?

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a b G Storage
June 30, 2014 5:21:52 PM

Sorry a bit confusing. SSD's don't spin. If your HDD is not spinning up it will not be seen by anything. It may be dead. Pull all drives out and just connect the ssd and see if bios sees it and we can go from there. Have you partitioned or formated it yet. Windows will not see it until you set it up in disk management. You never stated if these drives were new or not.
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a c 327 G Storage
June 30, 2014 5:29:28 PM

Measure the voltages at the SATA power connector. SSDs usually only need +5V whereas 3.5" HDDs require both +5V and +12V.

If your HDD is dead, then examine its TVS diodes for shorts. If either diode is shorted, then that will point to a PSU fault, or a wiring error.
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June 30, 2014 6:13:05 PM

reedo_43 said:
Sorry a bit confusing. SSD's don't spin. If your HDD is not spinning up it will not be seen by anything. It may be dead. Pull all drives out and just connect the ssd and see if bios sees it and we can go from there. Have you partitioned or formated it yet. Windows will not see it until you set it up in disk management. You never stated if these drives were new or not.
My SSD still is recognized by my Motherboard. Before I reset my CMOS I used my HDD as "Local Disk (F:) ". I stored all of my Music & Video Games on it.

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July 1, 2014 5:09:01 PM

reedo_43 said:
Sorry a bit confusing. SSD's don't spin. If your HDD is not spinning up it will not be seen by anything. It may be dead. Pull all drives out and just connect the ssd and see if bios sees it and we can go from there. Have you partitioned or formated it yet. Windows will not see it until you set it up in disk management. You never stated if these drives were new or not.
I tried hooking my 2.5” HDD up via USB External Caddy and my BIOS and Disk Management recognize it but I can’t partition it in disk Management. I plugged up my SSD, 2.5” HDD, 3.5” HDD (2nd HDD), and my External Optical Drive and only my SSD and External Optical Drive are recognized by my BIOS and only my SSD is recognized by Windows.

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