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Hard drive not showing in BIOS

DVAShun
By DVAShun
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I purchased a used Mobo/CPU/Hard drive from the same guy. The cables are brand new and I used 3 cables and inserted all correctly but all show no bios.


History:

The CPU was completely dead

The Motherboard was dead

I have no faith this Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB will work

 

It is in Sata Port 1. I replugged in everything

 

am I missing something or is the HDD done?

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if you hear a sound on the hard drive when turning the pc on, then it might be a faulty sata cable, if no sound, then the hdd might be dead. 

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Another scam from that guy. That was the final thing I got from him. $300 scam. I shouldve been more careful. I told this kid that it was my first build and he took advantage of me. Why would you scam someone who lives in the same town? 

My Last Build

B450 Tomahawk Max, ASUS TURBO 1080, Ryzen 7 2700X, T-Force RGB 16GB

 

Current Project

Macbook Air 13in 2013

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2 hours ago, DVAShun said:

Another scam from that guy. That was the final thing I got from him. $300 scam. I shouldve been more careful. I told this kid that it was my first build and he took advantage of me. Why would you scam someone who lives in the same town? 

does he offer a personal warranty? you can return it back if so. 

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5 hours ago, DVAShun said:

I purchased a used Mobo/CPU/Hard drive from the same guy. The cables are brand new and I used 3 cables and inserted all correctly but all show no bios.


History:

The CPU was completely dead

The Motherboard was dead

I have no faith this Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB will work

 

It is in Sata Port 1. I replugged in everything

 

am I missing something or is the HDD done?

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Okay, so I have read and first thing the hard drive may be unpartitioned which makes it not show in bios or in explorer if it is possible to boot the pc from a windows installation media since that should let u partition it. if not maybe try booting into windows from some device and go to disk manager

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I'm just speaking from experience so what I say may not work 100%

Please try searching up the answer before you post here but I am always glad to help

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WIll do. Im grabbing a flash drive today and getting windows off my laptop. I will see if your steps work @Kanna. Ive seen that work for others on youtube.

 

and @rheyL he went rogue on me and pretended we never made a sale

My Last Build

B450 Tomahawk Max, ASUS TURBO 1080, Ryzen 7 2700X, T-Force RGB 16GB

 

Current Project

Macbook Air 13in 2013

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