Question Asus z790-v sata hdd errors

[xayxa30]

In my attempt to troubleshoot why the asus z790-v BIOS wasn't reading my Sata HDD, I install a working one from another pc.
When that didn't register in bios, I returned it to the original pc. NOW it won't read the hdd..like it's been bricked by the asus mobo.

Any ideas what has happened?
Specs-
i9-12900k
Asus z790-v

CSM was.enabled on the asus z790.
Use uefi (was able to install win 10) on m.2 ssd

 

[xayxa30]

Also to note ..looks like the drive doesn't spin up

 

[zinkles]

Also to note ..looks like the drive doesn't spin up

do check if the power is connected properly, cause the drive ain't spinning up, probably a power issue.

 

[xayxa30]

Sorry for the late response -- I thought the same but two M.2 SSD worked fine as well as a SATA SSD,
I did use two different cables and made sure it was inserted properly.
I went to a repair shop to see if they could figure out what the power issue was, but no luck. He alluded to the fact that it was moved around, and being a mechanical drive it didn't survive the disconnect/reconnect.
These drives were 6 years old and hummed along in my old pc build. I lost 2TB of data just moving these drives to my new PC build.

I'll accept his possible explanation as the only reasonable one at this point.