BIOS and Windows not recognising HDD

Noughtboy

Noughtboy

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Hello Lads and Lasses,

Strange one here and reaching out for your assistance. I bought a new PC and installed my old Samsung 2TB HDD in it along with a new Samsung 850 EVO SSD. Everything working as it should.

My old PC is being passed along to the kids. Specs are i52500k on a MSI Z68A G43. I took the HDD from their PC (Samsung Spinpoint F1 or F3 1TB) and plugged it into my i5 rig. It is not being recognised in the BIOS nor by WIndows 10 installer.

I plugged in the SATA cable from the DVD and it is not recognised. I used it's cable and plugged it into the Ryzen build and it is recognised...all partitions intact. Used disk manager to format the C partition and replaced it in the i5.

Still nothing. Gone into boot priority, tried to scan it there. Still nothing. Only showing the USB stick and DVD. Set everything to Hot plug enabled and tried switching to all the four reachable SATA ports (1-4) and still nothing.

Loaded diskpart on the Windows installer and tried LIST, Volume and a few others to locate it. Nothing.

Loaded Samsung drivers onto the USB stick and the installer cannot find them (although it was in a Samsung directory so maybe I need to put it into root?)

When I switch the PC on, the HDD makes a clicking noise for a few seconds and then nothing. I thought maybe it is fried but firstly it was working perfectly yesterday morning and secondly, is recognised in Ryzen build.

Tearing my hair our in frustration. There is power. SATA cable is connected and working (as tested). But BIOS and Win10 USB installer and Windows 7 DVD installer cannot locate it. DiskPart cannot locate it.

What gives? Any assistance appreciated.

Have yourself a wonderful festive season.

Regards

NB
 
An update.

As stated above, it is recognised in my Ryzen build (not on bootup but as an additional date drive).

Again, as stated above, tried different SATA ports and sata cables. No dice.

Then I booted the PC set up hotplug. Then I put in the power cable. The next boot. it recognised it. I installed Windows 10. Great. Rebooted and nothing again.

I thought maybe a power issue owing to the clicking on powering up. Got a second PSU which still had clicking. Then it booted up on second attempt. Figured it must be the power connector on the HDD so made sure when I plugged in the original BeQUiet PSU it was very tight. Short of hammering it in, I cannot get it any tighter.

But it is still not being recognised by BIOS.

I am 99.99% certain the drive isn't dead. I have tried different cables, different SATA ports, different PSU. Only thing unchanged is CPU and MB. Both worked fine prior to transplantation.

Any thing else I should try?

Thanks

NB
 
Can I bump this to see if anyone can think of a solution before I go ahead and just buy a new HDD. I am not sure why it has been recognised once enabling Win10 installation and then not again.

Thanks

NB
 
Any chance of plugging this HDD in to someone elses comp just to see what it does? Seems like you've covered all the bases but something tells me its some weird power problem, maybe a contact on the HD thats intermittent somehow.
 
You mean like a third computer? I plugged it into the new Ryzen build as a data drive and worked perfectly.

I was able to format the c partition on the off chance that was causing an issue. Then took it back to the i5 2500k computer.

I suppose I could plug it back into the AMD Athlon II X4 645 system it came from. That was the spare PSU is used to power it up anyway.
 
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