Shucked WD White Drive Install, Now Desktop Won't Boot

[garrett393]

System:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700

B450 Aorus M Motherboard

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

64GB Ram

2 X 1Tb ssd Boot Drives

I duel boot with debian linux on one drive and windows 10 on the other.

So a while back I got a WD elements external 14 TB drive on sale. I shucked the drive and wanted to install it into my desktop. I covered the 3.3V pin that would prevent the drive from being recognized, and I also reformatted the drive so that It was no longer exFat. In this desktop with the drive installed the pc will not get past the motherboard splash screen. I cannot enter the bios or boot menu but I can see the motherboard logo and the keys it specifies to press to enter the different menus but it will never go further or boot into the OS. I can reformat the drive if I plug it back into the sata + power to USB board that it came with and plug it into the pc like a normal external drive. I have tried different sata cables, sata ports on the motherboard, and different formatting schemes, but nothing. The hardrive spins up, but the pc will not get past the bios splash screen with it installed, once it is unplugged, it will then boot.

I then took an old dell optiplex 790 that didn't have a drive in it, put the WD White drive into that one and the pc was able to get in the bios, and I could see the harddrive in the bios. So any help as to why my main desktop pc with the B450 Aorus M board cannot get to the bios with the drive installed will be appreciated.

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System:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700

B450 Aorus M Motherboard

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

64GB Ram

2 X 1Tb ssd Boot Drives

I duel boot with debian linux on one drive and windows 10 on the other.

So a while back I got a WD elements external 14 TB drive on sale. I shucked the drive and wanted to install it into my desktop. I covered the 3.3V pin that would prevent the drive from being recognized, and I also reformatted the drive so that It was no longer exFat. In this desktop with the drive installed the pc will not get past the motherboard splash screen. I cannot enter the bios or boot menu but I can see the motherboard logo and the keys it specifies to press to enter the different menus but it will never go further or boot into the OS. I can reformat the drive if I plug it back into the sata + power to USB board that it came with and plug it into the pc like a normal external drive. I have tried different sata cables, sata ports on the motherboard, and different formatting schemes, but nothing. The hardrive spins up, but the pc will not get past the bios splash screen with it installed, once it is unplugged, it will then boot.

I then took an old dell optiplex 790 that didn't have a drive in it, put the WD White drive into that one and the pc was able to get in the bios, and I could see the harddrive in the bios. So any help as to why my main desktop pc with the B450 Aorus M board