2nd HDD not recognized in Disk Management

[LCBChef18]

I recently put my os on an ssd. At first i had some problems with the boot flash screen hanging. For whatever reason it doesn't like my SSD being in ACHI. I left my SSD in IDE and installed windows. Loaded it up and then plugged back in my HDD. It doesn't show up in computer. So i clicked manage, disk management, and it wasn't there either. Restarted my pc and (because i have win7 on both drives) it asked me to choose which os to load. I chose the os on my SSD. When pushing enter to boot up from the ssd it gives an error something about new hardware. GIGABYTE SATA2 Preinstall driver is the only driver for w/e reason that doesn't come w/ a .exe to install.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3636#dl

Sys Specs:

CPU: 1090T
RAM: 8GB ddr3
MB: GA-870a-UD3 Rev 2.2
SSD: Corsair F60
HDD: WD 1TB Caviar Black
GPU: Radeon 6850

I updated all of my drivers. I'm at a loss.

 

[Muilisx]

Sorry to bump this but I have a solution

first I'll explain my situation and little story

I have a custom rig I built with a MSI MOBO. I have a samsung 120gb SSD for the OS, and a few applications that i feel should go on the drive with the OS such as my AV, Malwarebytes, Firefox. I then have a WD Black 1TB as my main storage drive that all the other applications go on as well as videos, music, etc etc. I then point the shortcuts in the start menu such as music, videos , documents I point all of those to the main storage drive as I created folders in there to look like the ones in the C drive. For example, if you go into the main storage drive you will see My documents, program files (x86). Inside the documents folder is videos, music, etc. I point the shortcuts to those so when I click start and click on music, it will take me the music folder inside the storage drive, and not the OS (c: ) drive.

I then have a 2nd storage drive which is a HGST 500GB 2.5" that came from my PS4 as I upgraded the PS4 to a 1TB and didn't want the drive to go to waste. That folder has a downloads folder where all the firefox downloads go, as well as more videos, and stuff.

Anyway, after 10 years or a little more of owning WD drives, my first WD ever is failing. It has unreadable sectors and such so WD sent me a replacement drive. I don't have an external drive to back up to so I figured I would plug in as a 3rd storage drive, create a new volume, and make the drive latter J lets say. I would then drag, and drop the contents from the main storage drive ( d ) to ( j ). I would then shutdown, take out D, plug J up to D's spot, and then reboot, and then go in and change the drive letter from J, to D this way everything that is installed wouldn't point correctly, and it would be like I never swapped the drives. I would of course rather just clone it but because of the bad sectors I rather not do that.

Anyway, here's the part where everyone is having issues with which is similar to my issue. I plugged in the new hard drive, and the BIOS sees it but inside disk management it's not there. I then decide to shutdown, and unplug D, and E,( HGST ), just leaving J connected. I boot back in, and there it is. I create the volume as J, and I shut down, and plug it all back up thinking since now that windows sees it, everything will be seen.

I boot back up, and now I see my my C, and E, and J....no D.....the drive with everything I'm trying to swap over is not being seen. WTF????? I start getting a little annoyed. Now I have a nice empty drive but can't transfer anything to it because I can't access the old D drive. So, I decide to hotwire it in which means plug in the drive while the computer is on because sometimes that works as it has worked in the past for me. It pops up saying I need to format drive D to be able to use it???? WHAT!!!! I then click cancel but then disk management locks up and stops responding.....

I shut back down, and I unplug J, and I put everything back to the way it was before I even started but now windows is not seeing D at all. Now my main drive isn't showing........now I'm getting nervous because I'm not sure WTF is going on.

Long story short...^^^ lol.... turns out to be the SATA CABLES PEOPLE!!!!!! My MSI motherboard will only recognize WD drives using the two cables the MOBO came with, and not the other ones I bought to connect the other stuff. However, the other cables work fine with the HGST drive and my DVD burner. Just not the WD drives. Changing the ports don't do anything....it's the CABLES. I swapped my D drive back to one of the cable that came with the MOBO, and boom, it's all working again.

However, I'm not going to be able to have BOTH WD drives up and running at the same time to drag and drop until i go pick up some new cables to see if I can't get them both showing. For my case it's definitely the cables I'm using.

So, if you're having an issue with the BIOS is seeing the drives but windows is not.....try different cables......it's the cables.

 

[John_VanKirk]

Sorry to bump this but I have a solution

first I'll explain my situation and little story

I have a custom rig I built with a MSI MOBO. I have a samsung 120gb SSD for the OS, and a few applications that i feel should go on the drive with the OS such as my AV, Malwarebytes, Firefox. I then have a WD Black 1TB as my main storage drive that all the other applications go on as well as videos, music, etc etc. I then point the shortcuts in the start menu such as music, videos , documents I point all of those to the main storage drive as I created folders in there to look like the ones in the C drive. For example, if you go into the main storage drive you will see My documents, program files (x86). Inside the documents folder is videos, music, etc. I point the shortcuts to those so when I click start and click on music, it will take me the music folder inside the storage drive, and not the OS (c: ) drive.

I then have a 2nd storage drive which is a HGST 500GB 2.5" that came from my PS4 as I upgraded the PS4 to a 1TB and didn't want the drive to go to waste. That folder has a downloads folder where all the firefox downloads go, as well as more videos, and stuff.

Anyway, after 10 years or a little more of owning WD drives, my first WD ever is failing. It has unreadable sectors and such so WD sent me a replacement drive. I don't have an external drive to back up to so I figured I would plug in as a 3rd storage drive, create a new volume, and make the drive latter J lets say. I would then drag, and drop the contents from the main storage drive ( d ) to ( j ). I would then shutdown, take out D, plug J up to D's spot, and then reboot, and then go in and change the drive letter from J, to D this way everything that is installed wouldn't point correctly, and it would be like I never swapped the drives. I would of course rather just clone it but because of the bad sectors I rather not do that.

Anyway, here's the part where everyone is having issues with which is similar to my issue. I plugged in the new hard drive, and the BIOS sees it but inside disk management it's not there. I then decide to shutdown, and unplug D, and E,( HGST ), just leaving J connected. I boot back in, and there it is. I create the volume as J, and I shut down, and plug it all back up thinking since now that windows sees it, everything will be seen.

I boot back up, and now I see my my C, and E, and J....no D.....the drive with everything I'm trying to swap over is not being seen. WTF????? I start getting a little annoyed. Now I have a nice empty drive but can't transfer anything to it because I can't access the old D drive. So, I decide to hotwire it in which means plug in the drive while the computer is on because sometimes that works as it has worked in the past for me. It pops up saying I need to format drive D to be able to use it???? WHAT!!!! I then click cancel but then disk management locks up and stops responding.....

I shut back down, and I unplug J, and I put everything back to the way it was before I even started but now windows is not seeing D at all. Now my main drive isn't showing........now I'm getting nervous because I'm not sure WTF is going on.

Long story short...^^^ lol.... turns out to be the SATA CABLES PEOPLE!!!!!! My MSI motherboard will only recognize WD drives using the two cables the MOBO came with, and not the other ones I bought to connect the other stuff. However, the other cables work fine with the HGST drive and my DVD burner. Just not the WD drives. Changing the ports don't do anything....it's the CABLES. I swapped my D drive back to one of the cable that came with the MOBO, and boom, it's all working again.

However, I'm not going to be able to have BOTH WD drives up and running at the same time to drag and drop until i go pick up some new cables to see if I can't get them both showing. For my case it's definitely the cables I'm using.

So, if you're having an issue with the BIOS is seeing the drives but windows is not.....try different cables......it's the cables.

Hi Muilisx,
It's always best to use a fresh SATA III cable when installing new HDD's to your MB. That way you know a wire hasn't been broken or a connector end hasn't been deformed in prior usage. However, the SATA HDD's are attached to your MB by the same cable the BIOS recognizes the HDD, and the OS reads & writes to it. So if the BIOS doesn't have any trouble but the OS does have a problem with the HDD, it's worth checking all possibilities. I have seen "connection issues" with SATA MB connectors after frequently plugging and unplugging cables. Try connecting the HDD to a different SATA controller port on the MB (check the MB manual), to r/o a driver problem, or controller issue. Also check the Device Manager to see if the hardware is seen properly by the OS there. In disk management, if two HDD's have the same Drive letter, one won't show up properly, so directly assign a different drive letter to the attached HDD's that you are sure are free, like V or W. You mentioned you have a DVD drive attached, as that usually gets assigned drive D automatically by the OS. If an attached HDD is assigned D, that could be the problem. So it's definitely taking a second look.

 

[Muilisx]

Sorry to bump this but I have a solution

first I'll explain my situation and little story

I have a custom rig I built with a MSI MOBO. I have a samsung 120gb SSD for the OS, and a few applications that i feel should go on the drive with the OS such as my AV, Malwarebytes, Firefox. I then have a WD Black 1TB as my main storage drive that all the other applications go on as well as videos, music, etc etc. I then point the shortcuts in the start menu such as music, videos , documents I point all of those to the main storage drive as I created folders in there to look like the ones in the C drive. For example, if you go into the main storage drive you will see My documents, program files (x86). Inside the documents folder is videos, music, etc. I point the shortcuts to those so when I click start and click on music, it will take me the music folder inside the storage drive, and not the OS (c: ) drive.

I then have a 2nd storage drive which is a HGST 500GB 2.5" that came from my PS4 as I upgraded the PS4 to a 1TB and didn't want the drive to go to waste. That folder has a downloads folder where all the firefox downloads go, as well as more videos, and stuff.

Anyway, after 10 years or a little more of owning WD drives, my first WD ever is failing. It has unreadable sectors and such so WD sent me a replacement drive. I don't have an external drive to back up to so I figured I would plug in as a 3rd storage drive, create a new volume, and make the drive latter J lets say. I would then drag, and drop the contents from the main storage drive ( d ) to ( j ). I would then shutdown, take out D, plug J up to D's spot, and then reboot, and then go in and change the drive letter from J, to D this way everything that is installed wouldn't point correctly, and it would be like I never swapped the drives. I would of course rather just clone it but because of the bad sectors I rather not do that.

Anyway, here's the part where everyone is having issues with which is similar to my issue. I plugged in the new hard drive, and the BIOS sees it but inside disk management it's not there. I then decide to shutdown, and unplug D, and E,( HGST ), just leaving J connected. I boot back in, and there it is. I create the volume as J, and I shut down, and plug it all back up thinking since now that windows sees it, everything will be seen.

I boot back up, and now I see my my C, and E, and J....no D.....the drive with everything I'm trying to swap over is not being seen. WTF????? I start getting a little annoyed. Now I have a nice empty drive but can't transfer anything to it because I can't access the old D drive. So, I decide to hotwire it in which means plug in the drive while the computer is on because sometimes that works as it has worked in the past for me. It pops up saying I need to format drive D to be able to use it???? WHAT!!!! I then click cancel but then disk management locks up and stops responding.....

I shut back down, and I unplug J, and I put everything back to the way it was before I even started but now windows is not seeing D at all. Now my main drive isn't showing........now I'm getting nervous because I'm not sure WTF is going on.

Long story short...^^^ lol.... turns out to be the SATA CABLES PEOPLE!!!!!! My MSI motherboard will only recognize WD drives using the two cables the MOBO came with, and not the other ones I bought to connect the other stuff. However, the other cables work fine with the HGST drive and my DVD burner. Just not the WD drives. Changing the ports don't do anything....it's the CABLES. I swapped my D drive back to one of the cable that came with the MOBO, and boom, it's all working again.

However, I'm not going to be able to have BOTH WD drives up and running at the same time to drag and drop until i go pick up some new cables to see if I can't get them both showing. For my case it's definitely the cables I'm using.

So, if you're having an issue with the BIOS is seeing the drives but windows is not.....try different cables......it's the cables.

Hi Muilisx,
It's always best to use a fresh SATA III cable when installing new HDD's to your MB. That way you know a wire hasn't been broken or a connector end hasn't been deformed in prior usage. However, the SATA HDD's are attached to your MB by the same cable the BIOS recognizes the HDD, and the OS reads & writes to it. So if the BIOS doesn't have any trouble but the OS does have a problem with the HDD, it's worth checking all possibilities. I have seen "connection issues" with SATA MB connectors after frequently plugging and unplugging cables. Try connecting the HDD to a different SATA controller port on the MB (check the MB manual), to r/o a driver problem, or controller issue. Also check the Device Manager to see if the hardware is seen properly by the OS there. In disk management, if two HDD's have the same Drive letter, one won't show up properly, so directly assign a different drive letter to the attached HDD's that you are sure are free, like V or W. You mentioned you have a DVD drive attached, as that usually gets assigned drive D automatically by the OS. If an attached HDD is assigned D, that could be the problem. So it's definitely taking a second look.

Definitely the cables aftwrnarket cables not working with the drive. The drive letters are different. Doesnt show in disk management shen using the afternarket cables.

It's Ok though. I went and got a 1tb passport and im just about done transferring everything to the replacement drive. These WD passports are pretty neat.

Thanks for the reply