PC not recognising HDDs on first boot?

darrenkarp

darrenkarp

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Hi All,

I have a ROG Maximus Hero VIII with 32GB RAM, i7 6700K OCd to 4.6Ghz, Corsair CPU water cooler, Windows 11 and everything has been fine for months until two days ago when I went to boot her up. She went into the BIOS complaining of no boot drives. In fact the BIOS reported no drives at all (I have a Samsung 500GB SSD which is the boot drive and a 1TB HDD). I pressed the ESC key and rebooted and all was fine. Ever since then the PC requires this step to boot up. Any ideas what's gone wrong and what I can do to correct it?

Cheers
Darren
 
Could need a new bios battery but changing it will you cpuld loose your overclock settings.

Was it pre overclocked ? if yes save the overclock profile or copy take photo of settings.
 
Not sure if you've changed much in the BIOS, but might be worth trying a factory/default reset of BIOS. Would also suggest doing a health check of the Samsung drive just incase.

Apart from that, BIOS battery is the only other thing i can think of checking as mentioned by mickyflinn
 
Still getting this error. I've also changed the BIOS battery.

The error is:-

SMART detected HDD/SSD failure 2: ST31000528AS
WARNING! Please back up your data, etc.
WARNING! Your HDD/SSD might crash at any moment
Press F1 to run SETUP

Any ideas what to do now?
 
Running a test on the HDD (not my boot SSD) indicates a problem with the drive so I'll back up the data and get rid of it. Is there a way of disabling the SMART check in the BIOS for now?
 
darrenkarp said:
Running a test on the HDD (not my boot SSD) indicates a problem with the drive so I'll back up the data and get rid of it. Is there a way of disabling the SMART check in the BIOS for now?
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There might be, but I wouldn't want to turn off SMART in the bios entirely. Which SMART parameter is causing the failure?
 
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