Question Urgent help harderive issues

[Kappa-K]

I have purchased another hard drive for my PC as a storage drive once I plugged it all in (PC was off and had NO CABLES at all plugged into it) and it wouldn’t show up in windows or BIOS.

I then returned this hard drive in exchange for another one and the shop formatted the new one infrotn is me so I knew it was all working.

I then went home and plugged it all up (Once again computer had not a single cable plugged into it)

Looked through bios and windows again and nothing. So I proceeded to unplug all my SATA ports from mother board and my 2 drives already in my PC (1TB HDD and an SSD) and swap all the SATA and power cables between hard drives. Only two that ever worked were my exciting two. It feels like the new harderive spins but it could be vibration from fans. I’m not sure why my PC is doing this and has done it to TWO hardsrives.

PC Specs:
Case: Corsair Carbide 275R White
CPU: Intel Core i7 8700k
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E
Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 X 8G
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB 750W 80 Plus Gold
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X62 280mm AIO Liquid CPU Cooler

 

[rgd1101]

what the ssd?

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some sata get disable when you have m.2

 

[Kappa-K]

It’s a 128 SanDisk

 

[Kappa-K]

Or maybe 120 I can’t remeber exactly

 

[Kappa-K]

It’s a 128 SanDisk

what the ssd?

All series｜｜ASUS USA

In ASUS ãAll seriesã - , you could find most appropriate based on product features, specification or price. And you also could get product's detail information and comparsion, even add it into the wish list in buy page.

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some sata get disable when you have m.2

I’m not sure if mines M2 I have a SANDisk 120Gb ssd

 

[popatim]

Open the case and check. If it's a 2.5: drive then it is not M2. M2 is about the size of a stick of gum.
Check if the drive is detected in the bios. While in the bios - verify all the Sata ports are enabled and enable CSM & Disable Secure boot.

 

[mdd1963]

COnnect to SATA port 3 or 4, as often utilizing an M.2 drive might disable either SATA 1,2 or 5,6 if utilizing the other M.2 slot...

Port 3 and 4 generally always stay functional....

Naturally, you'd ant to make sure the devince you wish to boot from is stil first in boot device priority....(often, installing another device might dork up your existing list)

 

[mdd1963]

If your BIOS boot options were set to Secure Boot before, it's often problematic once adding/ trying to select another device...go with 'AHCI/Aut'o

 

[fzabkar]

Could your problem be one of these?

Power Disable Feature (SATA 3.2+ / 3.3):
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2094

Warning: do not interchange modular PSU cables:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=2545