[SOLVED] Moving HDD from one computer to another that uses M.2, and that computer now does not boot, why?

[Glaucus]

Hey all! Been a while since I've worked on PCs, so I may be out of my element with some of the jargon today.

Regardless, here's what's going on.

I purchased a 8TB HDD for the PC that I use for gaming. I transferred the data from the old 3TB drive into the new 8TB drive with little issue. My intent now is to install the 3TB drive into another PC that I use for studio work.

So, this studio PC uses two M.2 drives already, and when I plug in the 3TB drive to it (internally via SATA) and power it on, nothing happens. There's a 'click' like the PSU is attempting to work, but nothing happens. When I disconnect the power cable going into the 3TB HDD and power on, the studio PC works.

I am not sure why it's happening, I have tried using different ports on the PSU, and different power cables. Looking through the BIOS I could not see anything obvious in regards to setting up M.2 or SATA differently, so I'm stuck!

Another thought I had was perhaps the PSU doesn't have enough wattage at 650W?

Specs below...
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MoBo - Asus Prime Z390-A LGA 1151
CPU - Intel i9-9900K Coffee Lake
GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 1660SC Ultra
RAM - 16GB Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM
SSD - 2x 1TB Crucial P1 NAND NVMe CT1000P1SSD8
HDD - 3TB Toshiba PH3300U-1|72 (Trying to install this!)
PSU - EVGA 650 GA

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

just hoping that all hardware is still in good shape and that this is just an OS issue;
does this foreign 3TB drive have an OS already installed on it from the previous system?
or any system partitions from any previous OS?

has it been wiped/erased/formatted before this exchange?

 

[Glaucus]

From what I can tell the 3TB is in good working order.

There is no OS on the 3TB, I used it only as storage. However.. It still has the petition from the previous PC.

I was looking through Disk Management on the previous PC while the 3TB was there and I was not able to format it, which was my initial intention, to format then move it and make a partition on the studio PC.

However, since I could not seem to format it, I figured to just move the 3TB as is to the studio PC and use Disk Management there. But, then I ran into the issue with the studio PC not powering on when the 3TB is plugged into the PSU.

 

[dwd999]

I am not sure why it's happening, I have tried using different ports on the PSU, and different power cables. Looking through the BIOS I could not see anything obvious in regards to setting up M.2 or SATA differently, so I'm stuck!

Which SATA port is the hdd connected to? That motherboard shares bandwidth between the m.2 and the SATA 6G_2 port, which would be the one on the right. If you haven't tried connecting the hdd to all of the other sata ports you could try that. Also you could try booting your other computer with a usb containing a partitioning tool like Gparted to see if it can delete all of the old partitions on the hdd, create a new GPT partition, NTFS partition and format it NTFS.

 

[Glaucus]

Which SATA port is the hdd connected to? That motherboard shares bandwidth between the m.2 and the SATA 6G_2 port, which would be the one on the right. If you haven't tried connecting the hdd to all of the other sata ports you could try that. Also you could try booting your other computer with a usb containing a partitioning tool like Gparted to see if it can delete all of the old partitions on the hdd, create a new GPT partition, NTFS partition and format it NTFS.

I noted this when connecting the SATA, currently it is in SATA 6G_1 port, however I have tried booting up the computer with it in the other ports as well and the same results happen. I am going to attempt to format the 3TB drive using an external interface and get a partition in there.

Once I have some time today!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

However.. It still has the petition from the previous PC

if this drive was connected when the old system's OS was installed then it may have old boot data on it that is conflicting with the new OS.

when you get any bootable drive management software running just delete all old partitions and totally format.

 

[Glaucus]

if this drive was connected when the old system's OS was installed then it may have old boot data on it that is conflicting with the new OS.

when you get any bootable drive management software running just delete all old partitions and totally format.

Yeeaa, discovering that now! I have the 3TB in an external enclosure and plugged into the studio PC, it's doing a slow format currently.

If anything, I'm sure that was my mistake, and given that this format will take a longggg while, I won't be able to update until probably tomorrow.

 

[Glaucus]

Well, I believe I really botched it.

So, the long format failed, saying that Windows was unable to format the disc.

But, I did notice that I had the ability to delete the volume on the 3TB, so I did that, then created a new simple volume, and I had thought that things were all set. But, then I noticed that only 746GB were created as the total amount available.

It ought to be closer to 2700GB, so I deleted that volume, and saw that the unallocated space was also 746GB.

So.. It seems that I have a new issue to deal with! I am not sure how to troubleshoot this.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

It seems that I have a new issue to deal with! I am not sure how to troubleshoot this.

provide a screenshot of the drive Disk Management and/or any other 3rd party disk management software you're using.

 

[Glaucus]

Should be able to see the screen with the link below.

https://imgur.com/0yspMKF

View: https://imgur.com/0yspMKF


Disk 2 is the 3TB drive I've been trying to get working. Yesterday I used DISKPART in the CMD to format the disk, but it's only showing 746GB available, and it showed that same amount as unallocated space before as well.

Of course, I'd like to be able to use 'all' of the disk, just not really sure why it's not showing up.

 

[dwd999]

Disk 2 is the 3TB drive I've been trying to get working. Yesterday I used DISKPART in the CMD to format the disk, but it's only showing 746GB available, and it showed that same amount as unallocated space before as well.

Of course, I'd like to be able to use 'all' of the disk, just not really sure why it's not showing up.

It was a little disconcerting when you said that your formatting was taking a long time. It sounds like you used some software to perform a low level format which you then interrupted. HDDs should never be formatted like that, just delete the old partitions and start fresh from there. Now the only way to get back full disk usage may be to repeat the low level format and let it finish. But first you need to use a real disk partitioning tool (which Windows Disk Management never was) so that you can examine precisely what's going on with the disk. You could boot from a usb and use Gparted or something similar to examine the disk. You may be able to remove any existing partitions and create a new GPT device partition which will provide access to the entire disk without having to go through the low level format.