Drive recognized in BIOS but not in Windows 10

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I've a Windows 10 system (on 240GB SSD) and a secondary 500GB internal 3.5" SATA HDD which also has Windows 10 on it, when both drives are connected, the system always try to boot into the HDD no matter the boot order. The computer will boot into SSD only when HDD is disconnected.

So far, I've tried "hot plugging" the HDD (the bios supports it) but the Windows doesn't recognize it. It doesn't show under Disk management or Device manager either, even tried hardware rescans and diskpart on an elevated command prompt with no success.

Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-Gaming 3

 
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Okay, It's not quite a solution but here's what i did.

Downloaded SystemRescueCD and made a bootable live CD.

Copied all my data from C:\ Drive to an external Drive.
Formatted C:\ Drive
Voila! Now SSD boots fine and HDD is accessible in Windows 10.

The only downside with this method is that you can't retain the OS.
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Here you go! It's not being detected.
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I want to add that i DID NOT install Windows 10 on the SSD with HDD plugged it, It was DISCONNECTED during the installation process. It was a fresh install. The SATA controller is AHCI.

Oh, I believe the BIOS is retarded because it still boots into HDD even if you select the boot drive with F12 menu.

PS: Please ignore Ramdisk Z:\ drive.
 
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I'm afraid that can't be arranged, it took an hour and half too boot up and then the system froze as i was about to open disk management. It's crawling at like 300 Kilobytes per second.

Not sure if the drive is failing but it should be recognizable since it's working albeit very slow, right? I wanna retrieve important pictures and documents before i format the Windows partition.

Can we troubleshoot this any other way?
 
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ChairmanSaab

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Okay, It's not quite a solution but here's what i did.

Downloaded SystemRescueCD and made a bootable live CD.

Copied all my data from C:\ Drive to an external Drive.
Formatted C:\ Drive
Voila! Now SSD boots fine and HDD is accessible in Windows 10.

The only downside with this method is that you can't retain the OS.
 
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