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Ozark Mountain

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Hello all,

I am having an issue with my home built PC. I recently upgraded to a new case. Now all of a sudden HDD #3 (I have 4 drives, 1x SSD for C:, and 3x 5tb Toshiba HDDs for storage) is not detected in BIOS or Disk Management or Device Manager. I have purchased several different Sata 6 power cables and nothing is working.

Again to restate I have tried BIOS and Disk Managment, so I will completely disregard any answer that suggests I check them, format, blah blah blah because IT DOESN'T EVEN SHOW UP. The drive was fully functional and formatted properly when the system was in my previous case.

MOBO: Gigabyte Z97-N-WIFI
CPU: Intel I7-4790K
PSU: Firepower/OCZ 750W
RAM: 16GB
C DRIVE: Samsung 850Evo 500GB
DRIVES: 3x Toshiba X300 5TB 7200rpm 128mb HDDs
 
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Your motherboard has 6 SATA connectors for hard drives/optical drives/external ESATA connectors. The best setup would be for the SSN to be on SATA port 0. If you have an optical drive that might be used to boot the computer, recommend that it be connected to SATA port 1. The 3 other drives on SATA ports 2, 3 and 4. This might be how you are set up already.

If one of the drives does not appear it could be caused by the power connector from the power supply to the drive, the cable to the SATA port of the port itself. Try move thing the connector to SATA port 5 or 6 and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem continues, try a new power connector from the drive to the power supply.

If the drive does not work after being...
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LouBraun

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Your motherboard has 6 SATA connectors for hard drives/optical drives/external ESATA connectors. The best setup would be for the SSN to be on SATA port 0. If you have an optical drive that might be used to boot the computer, recommend that it be connected to SATA port 1. The 3 other drives on SATA ports 2, 3 and 4. This might be how you are set up already.

If one of the drives does not appear it could be caused by the power connector from the power supply to the drive, the cable to the SATA port of the port itself. Try move thing the connector to SATA port 5 or 6 and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem continues, try a new power connector from the drive to the power supply.

If the drive does not work after being connected with known good cables to a known good SATA port, then there is likely a problem with the hard drive.
 
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Ozark Mountain

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Yeah I checked with Toshiba to see if the drive is in warranty and it is. I am going to try to connect to it with my external connector (Xbox 360 Hard Drive transfer cable) and if it gets no connection I will know its dead
 
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