Second HDD not being recognized by Windows 10 after Fresh install of older windows.

[benwinwood6]

So I have two hard drives, one 2tb HDD that has all of my valuable information on it and a 120gb SSD.

I have been having stuttering issues in games and wanted to revert back to an odler windows version 1607.

I removed my HDD physically and installed windows on the SSD.

Now when in windows on my SSD my HDD is not showing despite being selectable in the bios.

Why is this?

 

[captaincharisma]

the drive may not have been given a drive letter. when in windows, do you see the drive in disk management?

 

[benwinwood6]

the drive may not have been given a drive letter. when in windows, do you see the drive in disk management?

No it isn't there.

When installing on my SSD I noticed there was 4 partitions, that I previously hasn't seen, but obviously the HDD was unplugged.

 

[captaincharisma]

the drive may not have been given a drive letter. when in windows, do you see the drive in disk management?

No it isn't there.

When installing on my SSD I noticed there was 4 partitions, that I previously hasn't seen, but obviously the HDD was unplugged.

what kind of SSD is it? is it this a SATA type SSD or m.2?

 

[benwinwood6]

the drive may not have been given a drive letter. when in windows, do you see the drive in disk management?

Never mind, turned out I needed to install Intel chipset SM bus contoller