My computer wont detect either of my two hard drives.

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SeptimusofRome

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I have two hard drives. One is a 120 GB barracuda, and the other is a 1 TB Western Digital. My OS is installed on the smaller hard drive while the larger one is for storage. So one morning they were both working fine, but later that day it had blue screened and after restarting neither hard drive was detected. I have checked to make sure they spin up and and I have changed the sata connectors. Beyond that I don't really know what else to check.
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to TOm's Hardware, @SeptimusofRome!

This sounds pretty unfortunate! I'd suggest you try troubleshooting the issue by plugging one drive at a time and check if they will get properly detected by BIOS. If not, I'd recommend you reset BIOS back to factory defaults by clearing the CMOS battery or resetting the jumper on the mobo, and see if that will help.
It might also be a cable/port issue, so try swapping the SATA cables and also plug the drives into different SATA ports on the mobo. If you have access to another PC, try the drives there as well. This will help us determine where is the source of the issue.

Keep me posted! Good luck! :)
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Welcome to TOm's Hardware, @SeptimusofRome!

This sounds pretty unfortunate! I'd suggest you try troubleshooting the issue by plugging one drive at a time and check if they will get properly detected by BIOS. If not, I'd recommend you reset BIOS back to factory defaults by clearing the CMOS battery or resetting the jumper on the mobo, and see if that will help.
It might also be a cable/port issue, so try swapping the SATA cables and also plug the drives into different SATA ports on the mobo. If you have access to another PC, try the drives there as well. This will help us determine where is the source of the issue.

Keep me posted! Good luck! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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