Back in January I bought a Samsung 990 EVO 2TB SSD NVME, and installed it into the M.2 slot. Since then my 2TB Hard Drive is completely unrecognizable by my PC unless via a SATA to USB adapter, yet my older 500 GB HD and 256 GB SSD are completely fine.
NOTE: SATA ports 5 and 6 are disabled on my motherboard using an m.2 SSD, however this problem is occurring in ports 1-4, NOT 5-6.
Here's my PC build:
I've tried all of the following:
Some further notes:
Update: I managed to get the hard drive to show up again via SATA 3, however it took around 30 seconds to show up after system boot, and has since disconnected after connecting the remaining drives to SATA 1 and 2. Despite then disconnecting the other two drives, the 2TB hard drive hasn't reappeared.
Update 2: In the process of updating this post, the drive has shown up again, after nearly 1-2 minutes post-boot despite spinning the whole time.
Any help is immensely appreciated, I've spent hours on this and only had the drive show up a single time, which then went away on reset.
NOTE: SATA ports 5 and 6 are disabled on my motherboard using an m.2 SSD, however this problem is occurring in ports 1-4, NOT 5-6.
Here's my PC build:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
- Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard
- Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
- Storage:
- (Boot Drive) Samsung 990 EVO 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive = [50% full]
- [PROBLEM AREA] Toshiba MQ01ABD050 500 GB 2.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive (2 TB Hard Drive) - [0% full]
- Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2 TB 2.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive - [0% full]
- Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive - [80% full]
- GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 10 GB Video Card
- PSU: Corsair AX760 760 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
I've tried all of the following:
- Formatting and repartitioning to NTFS simple volume;
- Repartitioning to both F: (unused) and E:/D: (used)
- Formatting and not repartitioning
- SATA slots 1,2,3,4 all same result; 5 and 6 appear to be disabled since the M.2 installation (SSD and 500GB HD work from all 4 slots however)
- Daisy-chaining drive power cables
- Giving the drive its own power cable
- Connecting drive while PC is on
- Connecting drive before turning pc on
- Converting drive to GPT from MBR
Some further notes:
- PC was purchased secondhand ~8 years ago, nearly all parts have been replaced since except the non-NVME hard drives and PSU which have had no problems prior to adding the 2TB SSD into the m.2 slot.
- Only shows up in disk manager / bios when connected via USB
- The 500 GB HD was formatted and partitioned using the exact same USB adapter
- The one time it did show up was when I connected it to SATA3 daisy-chained with only the 256GB SSD and NVME, but once I connected the 500 GB HD it stopped showing up again no matter what.
- The drive is almost always spinning when plugged in, yet still does not appear.
Update: I managed to get the hard drive to show up again via SATA 3, however it took around 30 seconds to show up after system boot, and has since disconnected after connecting the remaining drives to SATA 1 and 2. Despite then disconnecting the other two drives, the 2TB hard drive hasn't reappeared.
Update 2: In the process of updating this post, the drive has shown up again, after nearly 1-2 minutes post-boot despite spinning the whole time.
Any help is immensely appreciated, I've spent hours on this and only had the drive show up a single time, which then went away on reset.
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