Additional hard drives gone haywire

md99

md99

md99

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Just recently completed a new build and plugged three additional hard drives into the sata ports on the mainboard. I just have data on them (pics, vids, games, etc). Here's the rundown...

Primary SSD + win 10: no problem

Second HDD + data: doesn't show up in bios or disk management

Third HDD + data: no problem, all data is accessible

Fourth HDD + data: after plugging it in and turning the PC on it went into repair mode with a Windows 7 interface????

I plugged them all out (minus the primary of course) as I don't want them screwing up a fresh new build/os installation.

What kind of sorcery is going on here could any of you tell me?
 
Hmm. Have HDD4 back in action. Even though I had the SSD set to be the primary boot device, 4 was booting and it was attempting to boot to Windows 7, maybe there were remnants of the master boot records of 7 on it from its days as a laptop hard drive? Anywho, I booted to my ssd/Win10 from bios, got into HDD4 via My Computer and backed up its data before formating it nice and clean.

HDD3 is functioning perfectly so that leaves HDD2 which is nowhere to be seen.

It was fine before I upgraded my PC now its completely non-responsive. It's the only HDD with jumpers on the back but I've never had to use them before.

Anyone? There are lots of pics of my dad on it so I'd be gutted if its dead :(

And I can't bring it to a repair centre because, erm....you know, ahem...there are artistic images of ladies on it that must have automatically downloaded when I wasn't watching. Probably a virus or something, you know how these things happen :eek:
 
If you just plug the 2nd HDD into the board and boot into the BIOS, can it see it ?

Make sure to try swapping the power and data cables around to rule that out as well.
 
Try booting from a livecd and see if you can see it there. Does it show up in device manager? Also try swapping both cables and see if that helps (ideally just with it and the boot drive installed).
 
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