- May 16, 2014
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Here's my relevant information:
Windows 7 x64
Hitachi Deskstar (0F12115) 2TB SATA 3 6gb/s
Asus P8Z77-V Pro mobo
Possibly relevant: I bought what I thought was the Hitachi drive listed above, but turned out to be a smaller (1 tb) version. Before I noticed the issue, I had plugged it in and started my computer. For whatever reason, my computer suddenly stopped recognizing my old 250gb drive AND now failed to recognize my new drive. I returned it for the right drive, but now my old drive can't be recognized, either.
I installed the new drive properly and booted my computer. BIOS fails to recognize my old drive as well as the new 2tb drive. Disk Management also fails to recognize either drive.
It seems to be to be too much of a coincidence that both drives fail to show up suddenly. I have a hard time accepting that all three of the drives I've tried have failed, especially considering the new one was tested and works on another computer.
I have tried adjusting my settings in BIOS (what I suspect to be the culprit is something as simple as the wrong setup), but nothing has worked. I have moved my system drive (a SSD) to every port on the SATA bus and it has worked on each one. I have also tested all four of my SATA cables with the SSD and they all work. The bus and cables aren't the problem.
Ruling out hardware failure, I have to assume it is a software issue with the mobo or my SATA settings that are causing me a problem.
Since BIOS fails to even register something as being plugged in, I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've never had something go completely unrecognized before. What else can I do to at LEAST get my computer to realize something is plugged in?
Windows 7 x64
Hitachi Deskstar (0F12115) 2TB SATA 3 6gb/s
Asus P8Z77-V Pro mobo
Possibly relevant: I bought what I thought was the Hitachi drive listed above, but turned out to be a smaller (1 tb) version. Before I noticed the issue, I had plugged it in and started my computer. For whatever reason, my computer suddenly stopped recognizing my old 250gb drive AND now failed to recognize my new drive. I returned it for the right drive, but now my old drive can't be recognized, either.
I installed the new drive properly and booted my computer. BIOS fails to recognize my old drive as well as the new 2tb drive. Disk Management also fails to recognize either drive.
It seems to be to be too much of a coincidence that both drives fail to show up suddenly. I have a hard time accepting that all three of the drives I've tried have failed, especially considering the new one was tested and works on another computer.
I have tried adjusting my settings in BIOS (what I suspect to be the culprit is something as simple as the wrong setup), but nothing has worked. I have moved my system drive (a SSD) to every port on the SATA bus and it has worked on each one. I have also tested all four of my SATA cables with the SSD and they all work. The bus and cables aren't the problem.
Ruling out hardware failure, I have to assume it is a software issue with the mobo or my SATA settings that are causing me a problem.
Since BIOS fails to even register something as being plugged in, I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've never had something go completely unrecognized before. What else can I do to at LEAST get my computer to realize something is plugged in?
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