Hard disk drives don't show up when booting from SSD

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prabhdialsunny

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I recently bought a SSD. Installed fresh win 10. But when I boot from SSD, only SSD and 1 HDD shows in my computer and disk management. I got 4 hard disks installed in the computer. If I boot window from HDD, all the drives show up in the system. any help please?
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to the TH community, prabhdialsunny!

Did you unplug all other hard drives from the system when you were installing Windows onto the SSD? It's possible that if you had all the other drives connecting to the motherboard at the time of the OS installation, you are now encountering an OS confusion that doesn't allow you to see or access all your connected HDDs. My recommendation would be to repeat the OS installation onto the SSD, but make sure you have all other HDDs unplugged from the SATA ports. If that doesn't help either, you should try Resetting BIOS and see if that will help you somehow. Keep in mind, though, that the reset will get your BIOS settings back to factory defaults. This would require you to reconfigure any...
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Welcome to the TH community, prabhdialsunny!

Did you unplug all other hard drives from the system when you were installing Windows onto the SSD? It's possible that if you had all the other drives connecting to the motherboard at the time of the OS installation, you are now encountering an OS confusion that doesn't allow you to see or access all your connected HDDs. My recommendation would be to repeat the OS installation onto the SSD, but make sure you have all other HDDs unplugged from the SATA ports. If that doesn't help either, you should try Resetting BIOS and see if that will help you somehow. Keep in mind, though, that the reset will get your BIOS settings back to factory defaults. This would require you to reconfigure any settings you've tempered with.

Let me know how it goes! :) Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD
 
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