[SOLVED] HDD not recognized on PC

[nze1337]

Hello,
I just bought a used HDD (Seagate BarraCuda 1TB) but it doesn't work on my PC. At first I thought I was scammed and it was dead but the HDD works perfectly fine in another PC. I can also feel the HDD vibrating when I start the PC so it seems fine.
I tried updating drivers, changing SATA/power cables etc. but nothing works.

My Motherboard is an Asus Z370-F Gaming, I tried connecting the SATA cables in slot 5 or 6 because 1-4 are already used. In the BIOS the ports are shown as empty.
Not sure if that is relevant but my CPU is an i7 8086k, PSU is a be quiet! Straight Power 10 600W 80+ Gold.

Thanks

 

[Impu7se]

Maybe this is a stupid question but have you tried reformating your HDD?

 

[nze1337]

Maybe this is a stupid question but have you tried reformating your HDD?

I mean, for that it'd have to be recognized first, right?

 

[Impu7se]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek

 

[nze1337]

View: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek (YT: How to Initialize and Format a New Hard Drive in Windows 10)[/URL]

Thanks but the disk doesn't show up.

 

[Impu7se]

show up in the formatting or in the hdd menu in "my pc"?

 

[nze1337]

show up in the formatting or in the hdd menu in "my pc"?

Nope, it doesn't show up anywhere. It does however work fine on another PC.

 

[nze1337]

Okay, I found the issue. Thanks Impu7se and everyone who might've researched but didn't find anything for your efforts.

The issue was that because I have an NVMe drive using PCIe 4x, SATA ports 5 & 6 were disabled. Thankfully I still had a PCIe to M.2 adapter laying around so everything works now.

 

[Impu7se]

Aight gg’s