Adding HDD to a SSD machine for storage

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I have a SSD machine already up and running. I acquired a WD 2 TB HDD and want to install it. I have already formatted it. When I plug it in to the motherboard and start the computer, it will not go past the ASUS screen where it says press F2 or DEL to enter BIOS (even when I press either of those). I can connect the HDD to my machine via USB and run checkdsk on it with no errors and it works fine through USb. How do I get it to work through SATA?

PC specs:
MB: Asus M5A97 R2.0 970 AM3+
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: Asus Geforce GTX 660
Primary HD: Kingston 120GB SSD
PSU: Rosewill Hive 750W

The HDD I am trying to add is a Western Digital 2 TB Green Desktop Hard Drive. I formatted it to NTFS through plugging it in with a USB adapter.
 
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Ensure that your SSD is connected to the first SATA connector on the motherboard. That connector will be designated either SATA 0 or SATA 1.
The HDD should be connected to the motherboard's second SATA connector. (I'm assuming that secondary disk does NOT contain an OS).
Hopefully this will resolve your problem in that the system will boot straightaway to the bootable SSD.
 
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My motherboard SATA ports are labeled 1 - 6. My SSD is plugged into the 1 slot. I have tried plugging the HDD into 2 - 6. I have even tried unplugging the SDD and just having the HDD plugged in. It will still not go past the ASUS screen to the BIOS. It just sits there regardless of me hitting F2 or the DEL key. I would think that maybe the HDD is faulty, but if I us the USB adapter and plug it in while the computer is on with the SSD, it works just fine.
 
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When I just have the SSD plugged in, I go to BIOS. In the EZ Mode it shows 2 selections. The first is the Windows Boot Manager (UEFI) and says it is the Kingston SSD, next is shows a second boot device and that is the same SSD but it doesn't read Windows Boot Manager. And this is with ONLY the SSD plugged in as it will not go to the BIOS at all with the HDD plugged in.
 
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