WD BLACK HDD won't recognize in MSI BIOS

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I'm seriously stumped here. I have an msi 990fxa-gd65v2 and it has 6 SATA entries that run SATA 6.0ghz which is also what the WD black 1TB says it runs. However, I can't get it to show up in my bios and it is plugged in and I hear it spinning. I even took a SATA cable out of my ASUS dvd drive that was running and still nothing. I have my SATA slots enabled, I don't know what else to do.
 
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Hi sofaKing.

On some motherboards you have to watch how many devices use the Sata ports.
Some boards reserve a set of sata ports for a raid config of drives.
And don`t let you run a single hard drive on the port in Sata, or Ahci mode.

Have a read of your manual if you have it, its often the case when using the 5th or 6th sata port of the motherboard.
And also in the case where there are two Sata based controller chips listed in the bios of your motherboard.

If you look it will explain why your WD black 1TB is not detected in the bios even though you have power and the Sata cable connected to it.

If you move it to the Sata port the Dvd drive is connected to it should work.
If it does it confirms one of the ports may be used for setting up a raid array of drives.



 
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If it spins up then it's receiving power. Now the power and data cables are of course separate so all that tells us is that if the data cable is connected, it should work. This means one of a few things: either the motherboard port you're using isn't configured correctly, the cable itself is bad, or the drive is bad.

With that board, there are 6 white SATA ports and it looks like they're all part of one controller. So if your other drives work then the port should be configured correctly. There are two modes, I believe, AHCI and RAID. It's possible if you have it set to RAID that there's another BIOS that's part of the RAID controller and you need to enter that and configure the drive there (initialize it), but if you're on AHCI it should show up in the main BIOS.

If that looks good then all you can do is try to swap a known good SATA cable. It sounds like your DVD drive works, so when you moved the connector from the DVD drive to the WD Black it should've tested this. If all you did was swap the connector on the mainboard and didn't swap the connector on the drive then you should try this instead because it sounds like all the ports work and you'd want to test the cable.

If neither cable works, and the port doesn't matter and the drive spins then the drive is defective. WD has a good RMA program and "Drive not recognized" or "Drive incompatible" is absolutely a thing that happens. I happen to have eight WD Blacks and I've used the RMA program before.
 
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I don't understand how I could've reached my "max" when I only have one other thing running (my ssd 250gb) and when I used my already running Asus dvd drive and then pulled the SATA to that and put in my WD black. That would only be two running? It should have no problem running three.
 
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Then you may have as said two Sata based chip sets on your motherboard.
So have a look in your bios if the case.
It may be set to a different mode, for example if the port is set to Raid mode any drive you connect to that port will not show in the bios till you set it to Sata, or Ahci mode for it first SofaKing ok.

On some boards if you get to the Sata ports listen by number.
You select between Sata, Ahci, Ide mode and Raid for each set port.
So check in the bios.

As said some of the port may be reconfigured on the mode set where as a set of them may be set to Raid mode operation.
That is why it`s best to read your manual on where and what ports you use.


 
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