SATA ports not being recognized

[advancedmixedgaming]

My motherboard is an MSI z97s SLI Krait Edition, and for some reason it is saying that all SATA ports are not present. I just flashed the newest BIOS to no avail. No disk drive works, and I need it to boot from my windows disc. I need advice.

 

[Paul NZ]

Reset the settings in the BIOS then see if anything works

 

[advancedmixedgaming]

Reset the settings in the BIOS then see if anything works

No change. Did my picture post?

 

[Paul NZ]

Nope. No pic

 

[advancedmixedgaming]

Nope. No pic

I can't seem to post the image so here is the link. https://postimg.org/image/lwdld05ul/

 

[Paul NZ]

Whats the SSD that you connected? Normal hdd ? SSD? NVME ? M.2?

 

[advancedmixedgaming]

Whats the SSD that you connected? Normal hdd / SSD? NVME ? M.2?

It's a HDD, Seagate 7200rpm 3TB drive.

 

[Paul NZ]

Reset the settings in the BIOS. Then enable UEFI, secureboot and AHCI..first.

If you're going to install 64 bit Windows.

Save settings. Reboot then go back into it. Does it appear?

What SATA port did you connect it to? And dont forget to connect power to it

 

[advancedmixedgaming]

Reset the settings in the BIOS. Then enable UEFI, secureboot and AHCI..first.

If you're going to install 64 bit Windows.

Save settings. Reboot then go back into it. Does it appear?

What SATA port did you connect it to? And dont forget to connect power to it

It detects, but keeps asking for a boot media, although the drive has the windows disc. It doesn't sound like the drive is spinning, and I have already tried different drives. Also cannot open the tray in the drive. The light is on.

 

[Paul NZ]

So you installed windows on the 3 TB? If it doesnt recognise it, how did you install windows?

Did you install windows on it, on another system or something? Then put it in this?

If you did, bad idea

 

[advancedmixedgaming]

So you installed windows on the 3 TB? If it doesnt recognise it, how did you install windows?

Did you install windows on it, on another system or something? Then put it in this?

If you did, bad idea

It's a hard drive from my old PC, so yes it still has everything on it, I was planning on nuking it, but I can't without the disk drive working.

 

[Paul NZ]

Go through the BIOS settings, and see if there's an option to enable / disable the SATA ports.

I'm pretty sure some mobos have this option inc mine (But mines not the same as yours)

Make sure SATA mode isnt disabled