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Hey guys.

I built my pc and my hard drive wont come up in boot priorities. I switched the SATA ports 3 times and nothing changed. Please help!
 
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Well it did something, I'm not entirely sure though. Can you go into the bios and look for boot devices? It might be under boot device priority. If the drive shows up in there, you're good to install the OS.

Edit: Yeah, I think that'll be the drive. You can just try installing the OS now
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Try unplugging every other SATA device, and try all of the different SATA ports on your motherboard. Make sure it's connected to the PSU properly as well. Other than that, you could try and see if it'll show up on a different pc, if you have one available.
 
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my hard drive is connected to PSU power 1 (I think that's the name) but I cant find a cable that can fit in the third port on my hard drive
 
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If it's connected to the PSU and everything else turns on, it's fine. So just try each of the ports with no other SATA devices plugged in, and if that doesn't work you should try it in another pc if you can.
 
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so i should remove it from sata power and put it into the psu directly?
 
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Ok so I did that now when I boot it says "reboot and select a proper boot decice or insert boot media in seleced boot device and press a key" did I do it right?
 
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Well it did something, I'm not entirely sure though. Can you go into the bios and look for boot devices? It might be under boot device priority. If the drive shows up in there, you're good to install the OS.

Edit: Yeah, I think that'll be the drive. You can just try installing the OS now
 
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How can you install an OS from a USB and then make it boot from a HDD later on?
 
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I'm not sure how to install from a USB in the first place, but once you do that it should install it onto the HDD. So just put the HDD at the top of your boot priority and once it's installed it should boot from there. If you have the OS on a USB stick you're not booting from the USB, just installing from it.
 
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Thanks you welped a lot
 
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