#NEWBUILD# HDD/SDD not recognized

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Scott Reidel

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Hey guys. I built my new rig, and am having an issue installing windows. I'll start by giving you the rig specs.

MOBO: Gigabyte Z97x gaming 3
CPU: Intel i7 3.4ghz w/ HT
RAM: 8gb vengeance.
GPU: GeForce GTX 780
PSU: Antec 850W
HDD: Hitachi 1TB X2

Now for the issues I'm having. As stated above, it's like my hard drives are non existent. The hard drives are from the old case, and ran fine in them, so they are fully functional, and the SATA connectors on the main board recognize optical drives, so they appear to be functional as well. However, the drives are not recognized in the bios, or the Diskpart in the cmd prompt. They also are not recognized when trying to install windows 7.

My bios SATA mode selection is set to IDE, and I have verified stable connections with multiple SATA cables. I have tried rearranging the RAID configuration of the drives, and selecting different ports for each drive, to no avail.

If anyone has a solution to this situation, I'd really like to hear it. I've been on this for 2 days and haven't gotten an inch of ground. Thank you.
 
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Were ,or are you planning to have the Hitachi's in a raid 1 or raid 0 array?

And to be clear, there's nothing in the m.2 or sata express slot?

if not then I would:

Power off
Move the ssd to sata3_0.
Hitachi's to sata3_1 & 2 but don't plug them in yet.
Optical drive to sata3_3

This leaves sata3_4 & 5, m.2, and sata_express open for the future; just keep in mind that you can only use 1 of the 4.

Power up and enter the bios.
Load optimized defaults.
Insure sata mode is AHCI.
Set the SSD as the first boot device.
Make sure the optical/usb drive is somewhere on that list (depending on if you are installing from disk or flash drive)

Insert the windows install media.

Save and exit being ready to press the F-key that corresponds to...
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Scott Reidel

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The only three selections are IDE, AHCI, and RAID. the later two of which need drivers. Thus the IDE seems like the most viable option. That being said I have also had it on all three modes trying the installation.

As for the questions, it DOES have a Legacy mode for USB, and the UEFI mode does not seem available in this bios.
 
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Were ,or are you planning to have the Hitachi's in a raid 1 or raid 0 array?

And to be clear, there's nothing in the m.2 or sata express slot?

if not then I would:

Power off
Move the ssd to sata3_0.
Hitachi's to sata3_1 & 2 but don't plug them in yet.
Optical drive to sata3_3

This leaves sata3_4 & 5, m.2, and sata_express open for the future; just keep in mind that you can only use 1 of the 4.

Power up and enter the bios.
Load optimized defaults.
Insure sata mode is AHCI.
Set the SSD as the first boot device.
Make sure the optical/usb drive is somewhere on that list (depending on if you are installing from disk or flash drive)

Insert the windows install media.

Save and exit being ready to press the F-key that corresponds to "Select Boot Device" which is F12 in your board, when it reboots.
Select the optical/usb drive from the f12 menu
** If you want to use uefi boot, esp if you plan to upgrade to win8 or newer, then select the UEFI optical or flash drive. example: "UEFI:Sandisk Cruizer 4GB"

When windows is done installing and you are satisfied. Shut down again and attach the two Hitachi's.
Reboot into the bios and make sure the Hitachi's are not in the boot order.

Once in Windows, You may need to run diskmgmt.msc and rt click on them to initialize them but i suspect they already are formatted so you may have to rt click and assign them a drive letter (from diskmgmt again) instead.
 
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