No HD in Boot Priority

[smky43]

Hello all.

I just got finished building my first machine and in the bios, the motherboard isn’t recognizing my HD in the Boot Priority window. It’s reading the optical drive but not the HD.

Under the SATA information, it’s reading the hard drive correctly in the second port.

Components:

prime z370-a
Intel core i7-8700k
WD Black 1TB HD

 

[Zerk2012]

Put the disc in reboot and install windows if that is a new drive.
If your using Windows on a USB stick then unplug the CD drive and put the USB stick in.

 

[smky43]

Will this solve the issue of not being able to create a RAID configuration? When I go to create one, it’s not allowing me to select either my HD or M.2. Neither are coming up on that screen

 

[Zerk2012]

You cant raid a M.2 and hard drive together

 

[Zerk2012]

How many and what kind of drives do you have, are they new, and I guess you have not installed the operating system yet.

 

[smky43]

I have two : the WD 1TB HD and the Samsung m.2. And no I haven’t installed the OS yet.

Thank you!

 

[smky43]

And I didn’t want to RAID them together, but it’s not giving me an option to do either.

 

[Zerk2012]

Install windows on the M.2 drive if that is where your putting it. Have the 2 WD drives unhooked from the motherboard when doing this. Turn PC off hook up a WD drive go to disc management and format the drive then assign it a drive letter. It should show as usable then.