- Feb 25, 2017
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Hi
I've been trying for a while now to find a fix to this problem but it just won't work.
I have a second computer I decided to build to be my entertainment computer, have movies, tv shows, music etc on it, and I used the parts from my old computer.
As for specs what comes to mind right now is the motherboard, a Asus Maximus IV, two Corsair Vengeance 4GB rams and 4 WD 1TB hard drives and one WD 2TB hard drive.
I tried to install Windows 10 64 bit Pro from a USB drive, the first few attempts only 3 hard drives showed up in the installer, one was 900 something GB and then I had one that said it was 7TB and a 2nd that was 4TB, this kind of stood out to me cause not only do I have more than 3 hard drives but also they aren't that big in terms of storage space.
I couldn't install anything because the two huge hard drives refused to be formatted or deleted, I kept getting an error, instead I figured I would install Windows on the 1TB hard drive that was there, I was successful in 'deleting' it so I could install Windows but I got an error saying it wasn't in a GPT format, I searched on google and found a post here in Tom's Hardware about having to disconnect all other hard drives in order to install Windows, I tried that but I got the same error message.
Again a Google search led me to Tom's Hardware, it said I had to press SHIFT+F10 and do a diskpart and convert that hard drive to GPT format, I did that and was successful in installing Windows, after that was done I shut down the computer, unplugged the power cable and connected my remaining hard drives but they wouldn't show up in my computer, I tried checking the disk management window but I couldn't find anything there, then I tried doing a disk part, list disk but only my one hard drive and my USB showed up, I thought maybe I had to do a new install so I started that.
This was a semi failure, in the installer windows one of my other 1TB hard drives showed up but not all of them, I did a disk part, convert to GPT on it and later in windows it showed up as an unused disk, I just installed the disk and it showed up and was useable, but i'm still struggling with my other hard drives.
I have tried several solutions found on forums but I can't remember them right now cause my head is tired after several hours of trying to fix this, but what I did try on my own was connect the SATA cables from the drives that do show up to my other non showing drives but that didn't help, I tried only having my non showing drives connected and starting the windows installation but it can't find them which I think is weird, also I have tried touching them to feel if they are spinning and working and they are, also I went into BIOS and changed from AHCI setting to RAID just to see if that would help but it didn't.
I should add that only 2 drives did show up in BIOS from the start but the first time as mentioned I got 2 drives that were supposedly 4TB and 7TB each, I did a little search on this and it said Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 have a RAID like function where it would connect several drives to make one huge drive, I just assumed that was what had happened and by this point a hope of a sign that the drives are functioning properly, the last thing I can think of mentioning is that these drives were used in a small server at my work place but they were to be thrown so I took them, I was told they were set up in a RAID system so maybe that is causing some problems but then again why would it affect only 3 drives instead of 5?
Anyway I have just about gives up on this and I would hate to throw away my other 3 drives, especially my 2TB drive cause I would at least like to keep that one if only 2 will work, I have tried looking around on Google and can't quite find a solution to this problem, I only found forums and posts with solutions that worked for others but don't work for me and it's really frustrating after 7 hours.
I've been trying for a while now to find a fix to this problem but it just won't work.
I have a second computer I decided to build to be my entertainment computer, have movies, tv shows, music etc on it, and I used the parts from my old computer.
As for specs what comes to mind right now is the motherboard, a Asus Maximus IV, two Corsair Vengeance 4GB rams and 4 WD 1TB hard drives and one WD 2TB hard drive.
I tried to install Windows 10 64 bit Pro from a USB drive, the first few attempts only 3 hard drives showed up in the installer, one was 900 something GB and then I had one that said it was 7TB and a 2nd that was 4TB, this kind of stood out to me cause not only do I have more than 3 hard drives but also they aren't that big in terms of storage space.
I couldn't install anything because the two huge hard drives refused to be formatted or deleted, I kept getting an error, instead I figured I would install Windows on the 1TB hard drive that was there, I was successful in 'deleting' it so I could install Windows but I got an error saying it wasn't in a GPT format, I searched on google and found a post here in Tom's Hardware about having to disconnect all other hard drives in order to install Windows, I tried that but I got the same error message.
Again a Google search led me to Tom's Hardware, it said I had to press SHIFT+F10 and do a diskpart and convert that hard drive to GPT format, I did that and was successful in installing Windows, after that was done I shut down the computer, unplugged the power cable and connected my remaining hard drives but they wouldn't show up in my computer, I tried checking the disk management window but I couldn't find anything there, then I tried doing a disk part, list disk but only my one hard drive and my USB showed up, I thought maybe I had to do a new install so I started that.
This was a semi failure, in the installer windows one of my other 1TB hard drives showed up but not all of them, I did a disk part, convert to GPT on it and later in windows it showed up as an unused disk, I just installed the disk and it showed up and was useable, but i'm still struggling with my other hard drives.
I have tried several solutions found on forums but I can't remember them right now cause my head is tired after several hours of trying to fix this, but what I did try on my own was connect the SATA cables from the drives that do show up to my other non showing drives but that didn't help, I tried only having my non showing drives connected and starting the windows installation but it can't find them which I think is weird, also I have tried touching them to feel if they are spinning and working and they are, also I went into BIOS and changed from AHCI setting to RAID just to see if that would help but it didn't.
I should add that only 2 drives did show up in BIOS from the start but the first time as mentioned I got 2 drives that were supposedly 4TB and 7TB each, I did a little search on this and it said Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 have a RAID like function where it would connect several drives to make one huge drive, I just assumed that was what had happened and by this point a hope of a sign that the drives are functioning properly, the last thing I can think of mentioning is that these drives were used in a small server at my work place but they were to be thrown so I took them, I was told they were set up in a RAID system so maybe that is causing some problems but then again why would it affect only 3 drives instead of 5?
Anyway I have just about gives up on this and I would hate to throw away my other 3 drives, especially my 2TB drive cause I would at least like to keep that one if only 2 will work, I have tried looking around on Google and can't quite find a solution to this problem, I only found forums and posts with solutions that worked for others but don't work for me and it's really frustrating after 7 hours.
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