Mechanical drive disabled in bios

[chakaboom]

Hi guys... I just finished my first build and booted into the bios... my m.2 Samsung drive is recognised and seems to be fine, but my wd blue mechanical hard drive is disabled. I plugged it into the SATA 2 port because SATA 1 cannot be populated when using m.2 so I’m not sure what I have done wrong. It is recognised as being present but just says disabled... anyone have any ideas? My motherboard is msi Z370 a pro. (Also another worrying thing is my bios doesn’t come up in colour-it’s Black and white..?) thank you for anyone that has thoughts on this

 

[CountMike]

There are 6 SATA ports, why don't you try HDD in #6 ?

 

[chakaboom]

Hi there countmike, thank you for replying... I realised that my wd hdd is actually disabled under the “hotplug” setting but is recognised by the uefi... so my question is, is that a problem? In terms of hot plugging and what I understand of it I’m not sure I need it as I won’t be removing the drive? Thanks again!

 

[CountMike]

Hot plugging just means you can unplug and plug back in while computer is running providing it's not system (OS) drive of course. there should be performance loss or anything, All my drives are set as Removable (hot plug) in BIOS because I have 5 removable trey bays for drives.

 

[chakaboom]

Is there a way to enable hot plug for my hdd in the msi bios that you know of by any chance? (I checked videos etc and couldn’t find an answer) Plus would you recommend doing so if I can? Thank you again, you have been proper helpful!

 

[CountMike]

Unless you have removable trays for disks I wouldn't recommend to remove or re-plug them "live", it can mess up a lot of things.
I don't know that BIOS but it apparently has settings for it.

 

[chakaboom]

Thank you counTmike; MVP for sure

 

[chakaboom]

Actually I wanted to ask another unrelated question that I searched for answers for and couldn’t find; the msi uefi comes up in black and white for me but on videos it’s in colour??- should I be worried about this? (I know you mentioned you don’t know bios but thought maybe you come across this before)- thank you!