Troubles Starting Computer

[Chad_Neslon]

I have a custom built computer (homemade) and recently my solid state drive (I put my OS on this) went out. When I got the new solid state drive I was unable to start my computer with my hard drive also being connected to the mother board. I have the GA-Z77-DS3H Gigabyte mother board. I have been switching around a lot of cables and what is working right now with no hard drive plugged in is my disc drive plugged into SATA 2 slot 3, and where my hard drive is normally plugged into is SATA 2 slot 2, and my SSD plugged into SATA 3 slot 1. So I was wondering if there was something wrong with my hard drive or are my cables plugged in wrong?

Thank you so much for you time
-Chad Nelson

 

[cin19]

After you switch the DVD, HDD, and SSD to different SATA ports, you need to change the boot priority in the BIOS too. Usually I will set the order like DVD/CD=1st, SSD=2nd, saving and exit.

 

[Chad_Neslon]

After you switch the DVD, HDD, and SSD to different SATA ports, you need to change the boot priority in the BIOS too. Usually I will set the order like DVD/CD=1st, SSD=2nd, saving and exit.

Ok so I got my computer to start but my big hard drive is not showing up any where on the computer. Any suggestions on how to get it to show?

 

[cin19]

How big is it? Do you initialize and format it yet? If not yet try this. http://www.overclock.net/t/1227647/how-to-initialize-and-format-a-new-disk-for-use-in-windows