2.5 internal SATA hard drive not detected by bios on a laptop using caddy/enclosure

amit5735

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Sep 13, 2016
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Hi. I got a Samsung relatively new laptop. I decided to purchase a 250GB SSD and migrate windows onto it, but the figured it would be a total waste to lose my 1TB HDD. So I purchased a caddy/internal enclosure device and mounted my HDD on it, replacing the old optical drive. It was troublesome but it worked, although everyone the hard drive turned off or was accidentally disconnected it took a full restart to be detected.

And so I gave up on it. Yesterday I found the caddy and figured I should try my luck once again, only this time on windows 10. After a dozen restarts the HDD hasn't been detected be "disk management", "device manager" nor by the BIOS.

It must be said that the caddy + HDD configuration has worked for me before (but on windows 7), and the hard drive works perfectly when using a SATA-USB adapter.

Any suggestions? I am getting hopeless :/

Thanks!