(WINDOWS 7) Can't connect 2 SATA Hard Drives

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drakefanatic

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Whenever I connect my second SATA drive BEFORE turning computer on, it gets stuck on loading screen. Yes, it shows in the UEFI.

Whenever I connect the drive AFTER booting, it will add 2 drives to my computer. 1 with 99mb capacity and 1 with no capacity.

Both hard drives are 2 TB.

I have tried expanding in drive management, tried formatting, tried partition. Nothing. Boots fine when second drive is removed. Windows 7 64bit. PLEASE HELP.
 
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smorizio

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if it a dell or hp make sure you have the newest bios file. if it a stock mb check that the bios is up to date. on the drives if there the same make check the drives firmware make sure it the same and it up to date. try swapping drives see if the error happens again.
 
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drakefanatic

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https://imgur.com/yKEsTaB

https://imgur.com/Lq8dFK9

HDTune would not cooperate with me, as I only have the trial version. However, I attached images of Disk Management where you can see that the second drive is partitioned. I also attached the "AutoPlay" window that is shown whenever the drive is connected.
 
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drakefanatic

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https://imgur.com/RjatbYV

I used Seagate's DriveDetect software and it recognixed both drives. No firmware updates sadly. Thanks for help!
 
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drakefanatic

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https://imgur.com/wR54gLt

https://imgur.com/pXpaPb8

Got HDTune to work. I do not know if this is the software "loading" my drive, but I allowed it to update multiple times and it showed nothing for my second drive while the first drive showed everything and is shown to be running healthy. Very strange that absolutely no specs would appear for the second drive.
 
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SkyNetRising

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As you can see - there are 2 bootloader partitions (100MB System reserved). One on Disk 0 and another on Disk 1.
Bootloader partition on Disk 1 is interfering with boot process.

If you want to use both drives on this pc, bootloader partition from Disk 1 should be removed.
You can do that with diskpart (execute from elevated command prompt):
  • diskpart
    list disk
    select disk 1
    list partition
    select partition x     (x - number of 100MB system reserved partition, could be 1 or 2)
    delete partition override
    exit
That's it. With extra bootloader partition removed, it will not interfere with boot process anymore.
Still after connecting second HDD you have to verify, if there is correct boot order in BIOS.
 
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drakefanatic

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I successfully deleted the partition, but my computer still gets stuck at the same Windows loading screen. I even removed all other boot options so I do not believe that it could be that. I was FOR SURE removing that partition would do the trick, but I guess not.
 
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drakefanatic

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Now that I am in diskpart trying these solutions, the drive is disconnecting periodically. Which did not happen until I deleted the partition. This is making it impossible to format or anything.


I fixed the connection problem, but now when I go to format in diskpart I get this.> https://imgur.com/a/KhVuOPP
 
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I have seen these symptoms on Seagate drives that have physical damage to the platter surface, SMART would say they were fine, and a basic scan would say everything was fine, but a deep scan and it would all rapidly go south.

HOWEVER

I have also seen similar issues when fitting two identical model Toshiba HDDs to my system that had been taken out of a RAID enclosure.

Would this be true of this pair??

Enabling only one at a time, and replacing the MBR/GPT with a default copy worked for me.
 
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SkyNetRising

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Didn't you say you deleted partition 1 ? How do you imagine to format deleted partition?
Can you show screenshot from this:
  • diskpart
    list disk
    select disk 1
    list partition
Can't you format it from Disk Management?
 
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drakefanatic

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Disk Management will not even function correctly with both drives for some reason. And I deleted all partitions, cleaned the drive, then created partition primary, then went to format.
 
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