Samsung Hard Disk Firmware update...except my hard drive isn't from Samsung

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I built a new PC today, and plugged in a HDD with Windows 10 already installed on it. It boots past BIOS, but then prompts me to update my hard drive disk with a message saying "Samsung P120S SP2X04C Series Hard Disk Drive Firmware update". Pressing yes is met with "disk not detected" (which shouldn't be, I don't have a Samsung hard drive), and pressing no prompts me to restart the computer. I plugged in a clean hard drive with only some backup files on it, and was met with the same problem.
Both the non-Samsung drives are detected on the BIOS screen, and when I plugged it into a toaster dock, the user and system files are intact. I am able to boot onto a Windows 10 media creation flash drive, but I'd like to be able to boot from the hard drive with Windows already installed.
 
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It's possible the issue has to do with updating the drive through USB.

Probably what you'd need to do is have the drive installed as a secondary drive, then run the firmware update.

THIS may not be the latest, but I can't be bothered to hunt down the exact link especially if the update works for you easily once it's not USB:
https://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-58376-1&cc=se&dlc=sv&lc=en&os=2093&product=395634&sw_lang=

(and as said, you can't just plug in a copy of Windows that wasn't legally installed on that machine. The install process has to be initiated and finished on the existing machine)
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The HDD with windows already installed is a Seagate, and the clean HDD is a WD. I will clean install on the newer one, see if that works. Thanks.
 
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It's possible the issue has to do with updating the drive through USB.

Probably what you'd need to do is have the drive installed as a secondary drive, then run the firmware update.

THIS may not be the latest, but I can't be bothered to hunt down the exact link especially if the update works for you easily once it's not USB:
https://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-58376-1&cc=se&dlc=sv&lc=en&os=2093&product=395634&sw_lang=

(and as said, you can't just plug in a copy of Windows that wasn't legally installed on that machine. The install process has to be initiated and finished on the existing machine)
 
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