Second hard disk no detected by windows or bios.

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chrisbradshaw

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Just treated myself to a 500GB samsung 850 evo and have done a clean install of windows on it. After the first boot, neither of my two seagate HDD's were visible to the bios, or to windows partition manager.
I rearranged the SATA ports of each drive to see if the motherboard itself was faulty, and the old boot disk (with the original windows install) appeared. I then formatted this as I had no use for it.
The second disk was my data disk, with all my photos, downloads, and my entire steam library (so any solutions that will require a format are not ideal). I carried on rearranging the ports, both the SSD and the first disk remained, but the second still was not working.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Hey there, Chris!

I think that the issue comes from the fact that you installed Windows on the SSD without unplugging the HDDs from the motherboard. My recommendation would be to start over again with the clean install, only this time make sure you disconnect the other storage devices from the system. Having multiple drives confuses the Windows installation and messes up the system files and partitions.
Once it's done, plug back the HDDs and see if they get properly detected. If they don't, you could give the BIOS reset a try: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS
It would get you back to factory default settings for the motherboard, so you'd need to re-configure them.

Keep me posted. Hope this helps. :)
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Hey there, Chris!

I think that the issue comes from the fact that you installed Windows on the SSD without unplugging the HDDs from the motherboard. My recommendation would be to start over again with the clean install, only this time make sure you disconnect the other storage devices from the system. Having multiple drives confuses the Windows installation and messes up the system files and partitions.
Once it's done, plug back the HDDs and see if they get properly detected. If they don't, you could give the BIOS reset a try: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS
It would get you back to factory default settings for the motherboard, so you'd need to re-configure them.

Keep me posted. Hope this helps. :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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chrisbradshaw

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Apologies, I forgot to mention that I installed both before reloading windows. After the a while, I decided to swap the Hard Drives around in the caddies and the first drive stopped being recognised and the second one (the important one) appeared. I can cope like this for a while yet, until I can replace the faulty part of the case.

Thanks anyway though, much appreciated.
 
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