Z170-a motherboard not recognise my Hard drive

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Lord_Seti

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I have a Z170-A motherboard I have a 256 gig SSD drive and a 1 tera bit hard drive and my 1 tera bit HD will not show in windows but is showing in bios how can I fix this
 
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popatim
Enter Disk Management (run diskmgmt.msc) and see if the drive is listed there.
If it is, make sure its initialized and assigned a drive letter.

- if that is all good then check your file manager settings and tell it not to hide empty drives.
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Enter Disk Management (run diskmgmt.msc) and see if the drive is listed there.
If it is, make sure its initialized and assigned a drive letter.

- if that is all good then check your file manager settings and tell it not to hide empty drives.
 
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Hey there, Lord_Seti!

I'd follow @popatim's troubleshooting advice and check how the HDD appears in Disk Management. Do you have any data stored on that drive? Were you able to access it previously? If it doesn't show there or in Device Manager, I'd recommend you to use a different SATA cable and try plugging the HDD to another SATA port on your motherboard. It is also possible that there is a shortage of power supply to the drive, which would explain why you encounter issues with the proper detection.

However, if it's a brand new secondary hard drive for your rig, then you most certainly need to initialize it (as it was already mentioned) and then partition & format it from Disk Management.

Hope this was helpful. Keep us posted! :)
Cheers,
SuperSoph_WD
 
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