So I have a primary drive and a secondary drive, both standard HDDs, and on the BIOS screen all I see is one “Generic STORAGE DEVICE.”
This started happening after I tried to boot windows onto my friend’s new hard drive. I unplugged all of mine and plugged his in, along with a CD drive.
However, that drive refused to just work and we ended up having to exchange it for another one, which worked immediately.
During our several hours of hair pulling, however, I attempted to plug my primary drive back in and install windows onto the new one from the desktop. On startup, we thought we heard a pop, and the drive wasn’t displaying on the BIOS screen.
Now, when I have both of my original drives plugged in, the screen only displays one generic storage device, and it seems like the primary drive doesn’t display on the BIOS screen whatsoever.
I’m fairly sure that the primary is dead, unfortunately. I’m not sure if there’s anything I can do about the drive, but any help is appreciated. I’m now concerned for the secondary drive, as the nail in the coffin for my friend’s old-new drive was that it was only displaying as the same generic storage device and would no longer display as a drive with X amount of MB of storage.
UPDATE: So I’ve now learned that even if both drives are uninstalled, the BIOS screen still detects one “Generic STORAGE DEVICE.” I
I’m now completely at a loss. My friend’s new-new drive has windows installed and works fine with the computer as well, so again, I’m just at a loss.
This started happening after I tried to boot windows onto my friend’s new hard drive. I unplugged all of mine and plugged his in, along with a CD drive.
However, that drive refused to just work and we ended up having to exchange it for another one, which worked immediately.
During our several hours of hair pulling, however, I attempted to plug my primary drive back in and install windows onto the new one from the desktop. On startup, we thought we heard a pop, and the drive wasn’t displaying on the BIOS screen.
Now, when I have both of my original drives plugged in, the screen only displays one generic storage device, and it seems like the primary drive doesn’t display on the BIOS screen whatsoever.
I’m fairly sure that the primary is dead, unfortunately. I’m not sure if there’s anything I can do about the drive, but any help is appreciated. I’m now concerned for the secondary drive, as the nail in the coffin for my friend’s old-new drive was that it was only displaying as the same generic storage device and would no longer display as a drive with X amount of MB of storage.
UPDATE: So I’ve now learned that even if both drives are uninstalled, the BIOS screen still detects one “Generic STORAGE DEVICE.” I
I’m now completely at a loss. My friend’s new-new drive has windows installed and works fine with the computer as well, so again, I’m just at a loss.