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If i have a sata cable connected to a hard drive to the motherboard

 

then is it enough to have windows installer recognize the hard drive? Or do hdds need another wire that i dont have?

 

my hard drive is a seagate firecuda 2 tb 

 

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Main PC 

 

Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 

Motherboard: Asus Prime X470 Pro

Graphics card: Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2080

Case: Darkflash Mid-ATX Phantom Tower Case

Drives: 1x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD

OS: Windows 10 Home

 

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Air 13”

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You need the SATA power and data cables. Smaller one to the motherboard, larger one from your PSU to power the drive.

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If you made sure you plugged both data and power cables to drive, make sure your install media is on USB2.0 port.

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Yeah, SATA power, so the drive can spin and read/write data. It's this one on the power supply:

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37 minutes ago, JapaneseTuna said:

If i have a sata cable connected to a hard drive to the motherboard

 

then is it enough to have windows installer recognize the hard drive? Or do hdds need another wire that i dont have?

 

my hard drive is a seagate firecuda 2 tb  

What motherboard do you have (brand, model or model number), mabey it requires a special driver. Also, are you able to try the hdd in another machine? And this is Windows 10 right?

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Ok thanks

Main PC 

 

Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 

Motherboard: Asus Prime X470 Pro

Graphics card: Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2080

Case: Darkflash Mid-ATX Phantom Tower Case

Drives: 1x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD

OS: Windows 10 Home

 

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Air 13”

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It’s working fine for me now!

Main PC 

 

Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 

Motherboard: Asus Prime X470 Pro

Graphics card: Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2080

Case: Darkflash Mid-ATX Phantom Tower Case

Drives: 1x 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD

OS: Windows 10 Home

 

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Air 13”

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