HDD Drive missing

[mick.mathieson]

I recently upgraded Lenovo H330 desktop, removing dvd drive adding ssd drive and using Hitachi HDD drive for storage, only two sata 2 ports on mobo southbridge model H61, all was running well then turned on pc and no sign of Hitachi Hdd Drive in Disk Management or file explorer, I can see both drives listed in BIOS, in system summery, sata drive 0- SSD, sata drive 1- Hitachi HDD. and both listed in primary boot sequence. I unplugged the Hitachi from sata port 1 and plugged in the dvd drive, was able to load disk but nothing on the pc but again listed in the BIOS, would be grateful for any professional advise before proceeding any further.

 

[karenjoly]

Can you clarify what this means

sata port 1 and plugged in the dvd drive, was able to load disk but nothing on the pc but again listed in the BIOS,

Load what disk ?

Provide full system specs including the boot disk.

 

[mick.mathieson]

I am able to boot and run the pc as normal via the ssd drive which is plugged into sata port 0, i removed the hdd cable from the sata port 1, to check the port i plugged in a dvd drive and was able to load a disk but nothing appeared on the monitor, and the drive wasn`t listed in file explorer but i can see it listed in BIOS. Lenovo H330 desktop Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Core i5 2320 @ 3.00GHz 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24 storage 232GB Crucial CT250MX500SSD1 (SATA (SSD)) No optical disk drives detected Chipset Model Sandy Bridge Southbridge Model H61 Please make allowances for my no teck savi

 

[karenjoly]

So port 1 appears to have suffered morte ! Toms has a topic on this particular board. The word at that time was as follows

"Also, I'd seriously suggest swapping the CIH61C out for a new board, it gave me no end of troubles after the warranty expired."

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1699036/finding-motherboard-model-lenovo-h330.html

 

[mick.mathieson]

Thanks for that