Bios Won't detect all hard drives

[sahil]

hello

I just replaced my motherboard and memory today.

Motherboard: Asus M4A89GTD Pro
Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB


I have two SATA hard drives installed in my computer one is a Western Digital 80GB and the other is a Samsung 1TB. When I had the previous motherboard, Samsung 1TB was the main drive I was using till this morning, and it never detected the Western Digital. I switched motherboards today and after plugging everything in, It detects the WD but not the samsung.

I tried uplugging the WD and plugging only the samsung and my SATA DVD drive. It doesnt detect it, and only detects the DVD drive

I tried using different sata cables, using the same sata controller that the WD was using, still nothing. I tried setting it to raid but that didnt help and caused even more problems so i set it back to IDE.

When set in IDE it detects WD and my ASUS DVD drive but not my Samsung. when set in AHCI it doesnt detect anything.

I really need the samsung hdd cause I have a lot of stuff on it.

 

[mosox]

Set it to IDE.

Control Panel/Administrative tools/computer management/disk management

Do you see it in there? If yes, right click on it and change the drive letter.

 

[arson94]

If his BIOS doesn't detect it, I don't think it will be intialized to be detectable by Windows.

Sahil, go into BIOS under STORAGE CONFIGURATION and make sure the speed that is set matches your drives. I say this because I think your board supports SATA III (6Gbs). I'm not sure if either of those drives do. I don't know if you can set the speed per SATA port or just for the whole controller. Check that and let me know. I could be just way off but it seems to have caused other people the same kind of issues as you with your same board. Hopefully it's that simple, Good Luck!