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Today my parts came in for my new build, all that matters is Asrock OC Formula Mobo, 128GB Samsung 840 SSD, 1TB Western Digital Black HDD. Long story short, UEFI bios doesn't detect my WD Black HDD, and neither does windows, even in disk management, but using one of these SATA to USB here gets the HDD to work on my Acer laptop as unallocated storage. I formatted and put it back in gaming PC, still wont show in BIOS or Windows 7. Please help! The HDD is sata 3 at 6.0gigs if that matters.
Thank you!
 
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You probably did, but have you tried different cables (power and data), or a different SATA port on the motherboard?
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Yes sir, I did all of that. This is my first Asrock build, and my feelings are mixed to bad.

PS: What's even weirder is that when I setup the bios I can only have 2 devices in the boot options, and they have to be on the same controller, for example my SSD is in the slot along with the CD/DVD Burner. I even tried having both the SSD and HDD on the same controller, and no luck.
 
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Are you using the intel SATA controllers? the third party controllers wont show connected drives in BIOS.

edit: latest mobo BIOS? IDE or AHCI?
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My board doesn't have intel sata 3 controllers. Only Marvell and SATA 2 intel. The WD is in AHCI
 
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My board doesn't have intel sata 3 controllers. Only Marvell and SATA 2 intel. The WD is in AHCI
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I'm looking at the specs for your board, and it says you have 4 Marvel controlled SATA III ports, along with 2 Intel SATA III, and 4 Intel SATA II's.

And it would be weird, as the Z77 chipset is speced for those Intel ports.
 
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I'm looking at the specs for your board, and it says you have 4 Marvel controlled SATA III ports, along with 2 Intel SATA III, and 4 Intel SATA II's.

And it would be weird, as the Z77 chipset is speced for those Intel ports.
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I opened the case, moved both HDDs to the intel slot and it still doesn't show in bios or in computer. Please respond!
 
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Dang... I don't want to be that guy, and say it's a bad drive. Maybe use some diagnostic software while its connected to your laptop? Western digital has their own, and it's pretty good.
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my laptop recognizes the drive but my pc doesn't....sigh
 
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i used the usb to sata thing, but without the usb and sata, just the wall power brick using sata from the mobo and windows recognizes the hdd. Does this mean my PSU isn't outputting enough power? I have a 750 watt psu
 
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i used the usb to sata thing, but without the usb and sata, just the wall power brick using sata from the mobo and windows recognizes the hdd. Does this mean my PSU isn't outputting enough power? I have a 750 watt psu
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Nice! getting somewhere! lol
So we definitely know the issue is power.

Is your PSU modular? maybe try plugging your SATA power cable into a different port on your PSU?
 
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Nice! getting somewhere! lol
So we definitely know the issue is power.

Is your PSU modular? maybe try plugging your SATA power cable into a different port on your PSU?
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I have a corsair hx750 and i got another sata cable for power, and the drive works now!

thank you so much!
 
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