Question HDDs won't Spin After Installing a new SSD

[Tomahass]

I have 2 HDDs in my system.

1 x Hitachi 0F15013 1TB
1 x WD SH20K17927 1TB

New SSD is 1 x Samsung 870 QVO 1TB - Disk management sees this. Works as intended.
Windows 10 Home OS is on an existing M.2 - Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe - Boot's Fine

Motherboard is MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM
PSU - Pretty much new Seasonic Focus Gold Plus 850w

Both HDDs seem to not spin (can't feel or hear any movement) and won't show up in disk manager and BIOS. The only change i made was connecting them to a molex>SATA to power them, as it was a spare cable i already had plugged into the PSU. I've tried multiple SATA data cables and went back to the original power cable, and still nothing. Even tried it in an older system. No luck. They both failed at the same time so i can only assume It's something to do with the power. I'm wondering if i shorted them somehow? Am i able to recover the data?

I'm at a bit of a loss. If you need more information, I'm happy to share.

 

[rgd1101]

and what the ssd? and motherboard?

 

[Tomahass]

and what the ssd? and motherboard?

Motherboard is MSI B450 Tomahawk Max. New SSD is a Samsung 870 QVO 1TB.

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Go to your motherboard's manufacturer's website and download the motherboard's User Guide/Manual.

Use the manual to double check how you installed the drives and what, if any, configuration changes you made.

Install only one drive - the boot drive. Goal is to get the system to at least initially boot into the OS.

And that molex>SATA has been removed completely or replaced with a known working molex>SATA connection - correct?

[Moderator Note: Moving post from Forum Rules to Storage. Deleting post in Forum Rules.]

 

[Tomahass]

And that molex>SATA has been removed completely or replaced with a known working molex>SATA connection - correct?

I've removed the molex>SATA from the equation completely and now running SATA power from the PSU. Known to work with the SSD. No luck.

 

[Ralston18]

What SATA ports are you using?

Check the motherboard's User Guide/Manual.

If I correctly matched your motherboard here is a link to the User Manual:

MSI B450 Tomahawk Max

(Do verify that I made the correct match.)

Check the storage specifications on physically numbered Page 17.

Note the instructions regarding SATA on Page 32.

Page 47 provides SATA configuration information.

 

[Tomahass]

What SATA ports are you using?

I have SSDs on 1+2 and HDDs were on 3+4, as the M.2 makes 5/6 null.

 

[Ralston18]

Yes: That matches what I read in the User Manual.

What about SATA mode (Page 47)?

https://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/mb/E7C02v1.5.pdf

(Apologies - lost the link in my early post....)

Try with just one HDD at a time.

 

[Tomahass]

Yes: That matches what I read in the User Manual.

What about SATA mode (Page 47)?

https://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/mb/E7C02v1.5.pdf

(Apologies - lost the link in my early post....)

Try with just one HDD at a time.

Unfortunately, either HDD don't seem to be powering up. Tried either power and data cable that work with the SSDs, with no luck.

 

[Ralston18]

Try to get more information about what the system is "seeing" with respect to the installed drives.

A very straight forward way to do that:

https://www.action1.com/kb/getting-PC-hard-drive-information-using-Powershell.html

See if the Powershell Get- results match what you expect to see.

If not, it is very easy to copy and paste the results from Powershell into a post herein.

Get- 's only.

Do not try to change anything via Powershell.

 

[Tomahass]

"Get-Disk" and "Get-PhysicalDisk" are returning just the 3 SSDs. No HDDs. Still just the one HDD plugged in.