Old HDD's not recognised on new SSD in Disk Manager

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69ingChipmunkzz

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So I've installed Windows 8 (only licence I have) on my Samsung 850 EVO SSD, and haven't installed any updates yet.

When I plug in my old C: drive and secondary (the C I want to format, the secondary has all my data on) but when I try and boot from the SSD with the drives plugged in, I get a "repairing hardware" message for a drive with about 30 characters in the name- so no idea what it is.

When I get into Windows 8 on my ssd, neither of the drives show up in the Disk Management tool, even after refreshing the list.

Whats happening??
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there.

This is pretty odd indeed. I could understand if it had issues only with the old system drive, as some conflicts may arise between the 2 operating systems' files (although this shouldn't happen as well if you're booting from the proper drive), but it's not normal at all for a secondary storage HDD. I'd recommend that you try connecting those drives to a different computer, to see if the same thing happens again. Another option would be to try an connect them externally, via external enclosure, a SATA to USB adapter, or a docking station, while the computer has already been turned on, to see they are properly recognized. If you don't need any data recovered from them, you could try downloading an HDD diagnostics tool, to see...
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Hey there.

This is pretty odd indeed. I could understand if it had issues only with the old system drive, as some conflicts may arise between the 2 operating systems' files (although this shouldn't happen as well if you're booting from the proper drive), but it's not normal at all for a secondary storage HDD. I'd recommend that you try connecting those drives to a different computer, to see if the same thing happens again. Another option would be to try an connect them externally, via external enclosure, a SATA to USB adapter, or a docking station, while the computer has already been turned on, to see they are properly recognized. If you don't need any data recovered from them, you could try downloading an HDD diagnostics tool, to see if it is able to recognize the drives and test them.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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69ingChipmunkzz

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Sorry, I forgot about this thread, turns out it WAS just the old C: drive, the secondary booted up normally with all my data, it took me about ten attempts with the old C: attached, spamming F8 to get it to bypass the countdown screen and boot into safe mode, where I formatted the drive. Apart from this issue, the whole migration process went without a hitch!
 
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