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IronWood777
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hi! I've been trying to install an old hard drive from a laptop to a pc and it didn't detect it. I did some troubleshooting and found out that the motherboard only detects hard drives from sata slot 1. is this possible? or the problem is just something else?

 

motherboard: asus p8h61-mx usb3

 

2nd hard drive(jic if it's necessary): WD3200BPVT

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4 minutes ago, IronWood777 said:

hi! I've been trying to install an old hard drive from a laptop to a pc and it didn't detect it. I did some troubleshooting and found out that the motherboard only detects hard drives from sata slot 1. is this possible? or the problem is just something else?

 

motherboard: asus p8h61-mx usb3

 

2nd hard drive(jic if it's necessary): WD3200BPVT

Are the other SATA ports disabled in BIOS?

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12 minutes ago, TehDwonz said:

Are the other SATA ports disabled in BIOS?

no

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2 minutes ago, IronWood777 said:

no

How are you powering the laptop drive? Just one of the PSU SATA power connectors?

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2 minutes ago, TehDwonz said:

How are you powering the laptop drive? Just one of the PSU SATA power connectors?

yep just a normal sata power cable, they both work just not at the same time

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38 minutes ago, IronWood777 said:

hi! I've been trying to install an old hard drive from a laptop to a pc and it didn't detect it. I did some troubleshooting and found out that the motherboard only detects hard drives from sata slot 1. is this possible? or the problem is just something else?

 

motherboard: asus p8h61-mx usb3

 

2nd hard drive(jic if it's necessary): WD3200BPVT

have you tried to reset the bios?

and make sure your hard drive is working and has power

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12 minutes ago, IronWood777 said:

yep just a normal sata power cable, they both work just not at the same time

Well, it's possible only one SATA port is working, but seems odd. No other disk works in the other ports at all?

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5 minutes ago, MESSERR said:

hav

have you tried to reset the bios?

and make sure your hard drive is working and has power

yes, the hard drive works and yes I have tried resetting the bios.

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7 minutes ago, TehDwonz said:

Well, it's possible only one SATA port is working, but seems odd. No other disk works in the other ports at all?

well there is an optical drive plugged in to another port and it works normally 

 

oh also when I started testing, it detected drives on other slots but not at the same time and then idk what I did but it suddenly only detects hard drives on slot 1

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Same here as well. Sata 3 4 5 6.

But 1 and 2 is connected well.

Using msi X370 gaming plus. 

 

 

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