Hard Drive not Recognized in BIOS Boot

[Tyler10274]

So my hard drive isn't being recognized in my boot menu, but it's seen as being connected and the SATA cables being connected correctly. It shows my SSD and my optical drive but not my hard drive. I've tried swapping SATA connectors and ports but it's a no go.

I've got a few pictures of the bios showing that it's recognized in the boot menu, but not in the boot priority. Help is appreciated

http://imgur.com/YJXHnpZ

http://imgur.com/mLtjfAV

 

[ronintexas]

If you don't have an operating system on the hard drive, it won't be on the boot menu....

 

[Tyler10274]

If you don't have an operating system on the hard drive, it won't be on the boot menu....

So I need to install windows at this point even though the boot menu isn't showing my HDD as a priority?

 

[ronintexas]

Your SSD is your boot drive - you don't need to boot from the HDD - you only need to read it. I have an SSD and 3 hard drives in my computer (2 internal SATA, 1 eSATA), and only the SSD shows as a boot device.