HDD recoignition

stormdot5 · February 17, 2021

I recently upgraded to an MSI B450i Gaming Plus AC From an MSI Z97i AC. I can no longer use one of my hard drives.
I had plugged into the old PC;
1 Crucial CT250BX100SSD1 (256GB SSD) Boot drive
1 Seagate Barracuda ST2000LM003 (5400rpm 2TB HDD) Storage
1 Seagate Barracuda ST2000LM015 (Same but newer version)

After upgrading it booted up correctly the first time but no longer recoignises the ST2000LM003 in the bios. I was expecting a failed hard drive so i bought a replacement of the same model ready to do a PCB swap but the same thing happens with this drive.

I tried 5 different SATA cables in all available ports and could not get it to recoignise either drive, including removing the other drives and using their connectors. I tried with both UEFI and CSM options in the bios but it had no effect. I also tried using an external power supply to the drives which worked with my other drives but not these. I did a CMOS reset at some point after testing the first drive but before the new drive arrived.

Surprisingly, I connected the drives to my old motherboard and they display in BIOS correctly.

Is there a no longer supported feature on these motherboards? Is there a setting I am missing?

Convictions · February 17, 2021

Did you try a different sata power cable and make sure that it's plugged all the way in on both ends? It's strange that hooking the drive directly to a PSU didn't produce any results...

Flannelist · February 17, 2021

What are the rest of the specs of the system, I presume you changed other things aside from the motherboard since the old board is Intel based and the new board is AMD. have you attempted to update the BIOS on the new board?