Drives Aren't Recognized After Re Routing PSU Cables

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

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?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

Not much you can do wrong. Each drive should have sata power and data cables connected. Double check all of your connections.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

My BIOS is Recognizing my Asus Optical Drive but Windows is not.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

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?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

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!

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

My Windows Clock is working now but does my CMOS Battery being bad have something to do with my problems?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

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.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

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?

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

I replaced the CMOS battery and reset the CMOS http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=MAXIMUS%20VI%20HERO&p=1&s=45&os=&hashedid=9JB5jBpArfvcpcNi&no=1723. That didn't fix my problem.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

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?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

Should be plug and play. Make sure all of you ports are enabled in the bios or you could try changing ports.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

I loaded up my BIOS SATA Settings and I didn't see any HDD just my SSD. What does this mean?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

is your hard drive spinning up?
And what about the optical

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

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?

reedo_43 · Jun 30, 2014

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.

fzabkar · Jun 30, 2014

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.

ThePCElitist · Jun 30, 2014

reedo_43 :

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.

ThePCElitist · Jul 1, 2014

reedo_43 :

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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