HDD's in BIOS, but not disk managment/device manager, help needed.

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520
I recently got a new rig all set up and added some older HDD's I had in used in the older unit. I wiped and formatted them (which may have been a mistake) before removing them.
After physically installing them and double checking them in BIOS (they both show up), they are not showing up in disk management or device manager to edit.
Its been quite some time since I've installed a HDD and I'm not sure if I'm missing something or somethings actually wrong.

The HDD's in question are some older (2008-2009?) Western Digital's: 1 Black and 1 green.

EDIT: I'm running off of a SSD with Win 10
The PC works perfectly. I just can't get these HDD's to show up, I need them for storage.
 
Solution
R
OKAY.
WINDOWS 10 IS OFFICALLY STRANGE.

I've been reading numerous reports of people just "restarting" their PC and having it show up.
But I've been doing normal "shutdown" option for restarts. Apparently that doesn't work and you actually have to use the dedicated "restart" option.
So I decided to finally try that.

They all show up and work now.

Boggles my mind.



I can't pick my own post as a solution, so if a mod would do that and mark this as solved please/thanks.
Sort by date Sort by votes
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520


I enabled legacy mode and the those HDD's did show up as options for booting so they still show up there at least.
I couldn't find CSM and secure boot though. I have an MSI X99S and the BIOS doesn't seem to have anything useful besides stuff for overclocking and basic boot stuff. Maybe I'm just missing it.

they still don't show up in the actual OS at all though :\
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520
Just bought a brand new HDD and same thing is happening. in BIOS, but not being recognized in the OS. Very confused right now.
I want to say its a power issue, but there's more than enough power, plus the drive(s) are being plugged into by the same exact SATA power cable as the working SSD (one long cable with multiple plugs).
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520
OKAY.
WINDOWS 10 IS OFFICALLY STRANGE.

I've been reading numerous reports of people just "restarting" their PC and having it show up.
But I've been doing normal "shutdown" option for restarts. Apparently that doesn't work and you actually have to use the dedicated "restart" option.
So I decided to finally try that.

They all show up and work now.

Boggles my mind.



I can't pick my own post as a solution, so if a mod would do that and mark this as solved please/thanks.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
B

BadAsAl

Distinguished
Oct 13, 2009
2,345
0
20,960
Possibly something with fast boot? Where it isn't completely shutting down? I didn't notice this when I added HDD to my Windows 10 SSD rig but I would always unplug the PC power cord when adding the drives (don't know if you did that). It is weird though. I set my storage drives as hot swapable in the BIOS as well so I could disconnect them if I needed to even if the PC was running... so maybe that would affect this?

Anyway, glad you got it worked out and I will mark yours as solution.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520


Yea I'd unplug my PC as well. But I did not have Hotplug enabled on any of mine. also although my motherboard does have its own option for fast boot, I don't have that enabled yet either.
I'll probably be checking out both of these in the future for other peoples troubleshooting purposes, I still have another drive to add later.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
T

Thinh

Reputable
Jun 10, 2015
33
0
4,530


What do you mean by "dedicated restart button"? I have a custom built PC that I built back in May. For some reason today, my HDD is not showing in windows but it shows the BIOS. I posted my own thread but no replies :/
I'm also on Windows 10.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
R

Randall1160

Reputable
Sep 8, 2015
10
0
4,520


Yeah, in your start menu. Instead of doing a hard restart and shutting down your computer with "shut down" and turning it back on again, you have to just select "restart"

Hope that works for you Thinh!
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
A

akseli

Distinguished
Jun 6, 2009
185
0
18,760


Windows 8 and above, have by default, option called fast startup on. Here is some short info about it.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

With it on, booting up the system after normal shutdown, will not actually load and initalize drivers and such, they are restored to memory from image file. By doing a manual restart, Windows will make an old fashioned "cold boot" and load all drivers from scratch, like it would always do when that option is turned off or with previous Windows versions which didn't have it.

I think, when using that feature, you might have been able to get WIndows to detect the drive, by using "find new hardware" option from device manager. But I think IDE / PATA drives might not be detected from Windows once the controller drivers have been loaded, as they don't suppot hot swap like sata II and above do. And maybe some drivers for some disk controllers don't fully support it either. Also if the system is configured not to use ACHI, I think in that case it might not support adding drives on the fly either.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom