SATA not present

[WylieC0y0te]

Hi all

I have 2 SATA drives in my system, both with windows 7 on them.

Normally when I turn on my pc whichever hard drive I have set to boot first in the bios will load up without me having to do anything. However I am recently being presented with a screen that says please select a version of windows to load, windows 7 or windows 7.

I have never had this before so went into bios SATA settings and noticed that only one hard drive was showing, the other is showing as not present. But the drive is showing in boot priorities list, just not in the SATA settings menu. The hard drive that's not showing did have a boot mgr missing error which I fixed with a repair disc and the message is gone, but the drive is still not showing as present in the SATA menu of the bios.

I'm confused with this one as if I select a version of windows 7 from the menu that pops up that's on that drive, it loads up fine and is detected in windows?

I have an Asus Sabretooth 990fx motherboard, and the said hard drive must be a good 5 yrs old now, not sure if that is a cause.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, normally ok with computers but pulling my hair out on this one.

Thank you

 

[WylieC0y0te]

Anybody?

 

[WylieC0y0te]

"sigh"

Thanks anyway guys

 

[HecFam]

Hey dude,

When booted into windows, Press the windows Key and R to open Run, then type

Msconfig

Click on the boot tab and see how many OSes are there. If there are two then you will have to remove one.

If you click on the one that isn't set as default, it should say it leads to nowhere or something like that. Then you can just delete it.

If it pops up time after time, have a look in advanced options, and you may have to remove it from the notepad file.

I dont think it has anything to do with sata, just It thinks there are two OSes present when there isn't.




EDIT:: I may be barking up the wrong tree....

 

[WylieC0y0te]

Thank you I will try that.

I really appreciate the response.