BIOS cant see my HDD

[Combinekillz]

Hello,

I have recently installed a 2tb seagate st2000dm001 sata 3 into my asus maximus VII hero yet i cant seem to find the HDD on my bios, it has power as the power cord is also powering my SSD which i can find is there any reason for this?

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Check the sata port and sata controller is enabled in the bios
Check both data and power are correctly plugged in

If this fails check when
Connect to sata data port and cable used by ssd as you know this is working

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[Combinekillz]

Hi, mbarnes86

i just still cannot see it inside the BIOS however i went into disk management and can see an unallocated slot in disk 0 at 128GB , i look inside the properties and it is called stdm001, i have attempted to initilize the disk and it states that there is an I/O error

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Each hard disk is shown separately in disk management

Each head disk has one or more partitions

The boot partition (if vista or latter ) has at least 2 partitions

Post a picture of what you see in disk management

If disks are on a raid controller they may be seen by raid controller bios not main bios.
You would see a 2 TB hard drive if it is working properly and it would be seen by bios and show up in device manager with size, make and model

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[Combinekillz]

Hi these are multiple screenshots of the disk management

http://gyazo.com/ac2f3dace5baf4c2629a37368876c239
http://gyazo.com/a398418ac4aa7827dc55302937cee644

this comes up when i try to initilize disk 0, http://gyazo.com/0b743d3e3a5ce8d4701e533af75ffc88 , the text states - the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Either this is a old PC which does not support modern large hard drives
Or the hard drive is faulty

Try it in a modern PC and see if it is detected properly

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[Chicano]

You may have to configure the BIOS to make the HDD detected during the BIOS post, and accessible in Windows.

Download the motherboard user manual from this page, and check the manual in: Chapter 3, Page 3-45, the page explains what setting to configure to make the Hard Drive be detected during the BIOS post...

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/HelpDesk_Manual/

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/MAXIMUS-VII-HERO/E9192_Maximus_Vii_Hero.pdf

 

[Combinekillz]

Its a brand new build with a fresh install of windows, possibly the HDD is broken ill keep looking into it, thanks anyway

 

[Chicano]

Its a brand new build with a fresh install of windows, possibly the HDD is broken ill keep looking into it, thanks anyway

Check my suggestion I'd bet that would solve it... if a HDD is not detected in the BIOS post, it's drivers can't be loaded, and it will not work in Windows.