Windows Won't Show HDD

[jason451]

Hey all, just built my new pc today. Using an Intel 730 240GB SSD as boot drive and trying to use a WD Blue 7200rpm 1TB as storage. The SSD shows up fine, the WD shows up in BIOS but not in windows 7. I set it as ACHI instead of IDE, the HDD works because I can feel it spinning and BIOS recognizes it and its capacity as 1000.2GB

I uninstalled it and I noticed that in Computer/Hard Disk Drives that the Drive named System Reserved (E) disappeared, I reinstalled it and it reappeared. However, Location E is only at 99.9MB and only 76.2 is useable. I googled this and I tired what everyone else tried.

So is this drive a RMA?? Is there a fix?? Please help!

Mobo: ASRock x99x Killer

 

[USAFRet]

What does it show in Disk Manager? Post a screencap if you can.

But you almost certainly just have to initialize it, format it, and give it a drive letter.

 

[jason451]

By the way, I purposefully removed all SSDs and HDDs from the pc (except the Intel SSD) that I wasnt going to use when I installed win7. How could it create its own partition on a drive that didnt exist??

The Device manager shows two drives (SSD and HDD). Supposedly both are working correctly, I've formatted the drive several times and it still shows up as System Reserved.

 

[jason451]

Formatted again, changed drive letter. Worked, however it is still showing as only 76.2mb out of 99.99mb in capacity.

 

[USAFRet]

Formatted again, changed drive letter. Worked, however it is still showing as only 76.2mb out of 99.99mb in capacity.

That 99MB is the System Reserved boot partition.
How did it end up on the HDD?

Again...a screenshot of your Disk Management windows would work here.

 

[jason451]

http://tinypic.com/r/lfihk/8

Here is the screenshot

 

[USAFRet]

OK...you have 3 physical drives.

Your SSD appears to be Disk 2.
What happens if you disconnect the other two, and then try to boot?
Your C and E seem to be all confused here.

 

[jason451]

I did unplug all the drives except the SSD, all the confused drives went away. but when i plugged them back up they went into the same boot cycle.

 

[USAFRet]

I did unplug all the drives except the SSD, all the confused drives went away. but when i plugged them back up they went into the same boot cycle.

With only the SSD (Disk 2) connected, it boots properly?

 

[jason451]

yes, it boots fine. My initial course was to remove all drives except the boot drive which is the SSD. Everything booted up fine.

 

[USAFRet]

Show us a screencap with only the SSD connected.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, what does your boot order look like? SSD first?

 

[jason451]

http://tinypic.com/r/2mi3lgo/8

Yes, SSD is first in boot order in BIOS. Second is the DVD drive and Ive disabled boot #3 and 4 earlier. Didnt change anything.

 

[USAFRet]

OK...connect the 500GB drive. Disk Management, you should see that 100MB space (E), and 465GB (F).

Delete the 100MB partition. Merge those 2 partitions into one.

 

[jason451]

Partition cannot be deleted, the option to do so is grayed out.

http://i59.tinypic.com/2q1scuo.png

Seriously thinking about just reinstalling Win7 and trying again. Funny thing was it took 2 hours to build and Ive been fighting with Windows for over 6 hours.

 

[USAFRet]

Partition cannot be deleted, the option to do so is grayed out.

http://i59.tinypic.com/2q1scuo.png

Seriously thinking about just reinstalling Win7 and trying again. Funny thing was it took 2 hours to build and Ive been fighting with Windows for over 6 hours.

From your pic, I can't really tell which you are trying to 'delete'. The 101MB on Disk 0, or the System Reserved on Disk 2.
Leave the one on Disk 2 alone. That is your boot info.

 

[jason451]

Ok, just to make things clearer for myself I reinstalled win7. the os is on the SSD and so is the 100mb allocation. Fine.
I installed the 1tb HDD and it shows up in both UEFI and Disk management with the proper capacity but will not show up as a useable drive under My Computer/ Drives. Doesnt give me the option to change that in DM. Any help?