PC won't boot with 2TB HDD

[Hassan170]

Recently just bought a new 2TB Seagate Firecuda HDD for mass storage.

It's not formatted and when I connect it with SATA and power it won't boot to Windows BUT stays on the boot screen

My storage config is as follows

• Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB (boot drive)
• WD Black 500GB HDD (nothing in it)
• Kingston A2000 1TB Nvme SSD (games and media)

My mobo is a Gigabyte DS3H

pls help

[PDifolco]

Reset CMOS

[Hassan170]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

Reset CMOS

so i just pop it out and pop it back in?

 

Edit: do I have the drive plugged in after resetting the CMOS?

[PDifolco]

Just now, Hassan170 said:

so i just pop it out and pop it back in?

Yeah old style

 

[Hassan170]

here goes...

[wONKEyeYEs]

6 minutes ago, Hassan170 said:

when I connect it with SATA and power it won't boot

Some MBs loose a sata port or two when installing an NVME drive.

Try changing the sata port you have your drive connected to.

[Bob__]

6 minutes ago, Hassan170 said:

so i just pop it out and pop it back in?

 

make sure u have the pc unpluged for it

[PDifolco]

7 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Some MBs loose a sata port or two when installing an NVME drive.

Try changing the sata port you have your drive connected to.

This should'nt prevent boot, whould "just" not see the drive ...

[Hassan170]

14 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Yeah old style

 

CMOS clearing didn't help

10 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Some MBs loose a sata port or two when installing an NVME drive.

Try changing the sata port you have your drive connected to.

Will try this now.

2 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

This should'nt prevent boot, whould "just" not see the drive ...

Ikr? There's nothing on it so why the issue?

[wONKEyeYEs]

3 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

This should'nt prevent boot, whould "just" not see the drive ...

No, can knock out boot.

[Hassan170]

29 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Some MBs loose a sata port or two when installing an NVME drive.

Try changing the sata port you have your drive connected to.

Tried in every other sata port and still nada

 

Should I try and update BIOS? 

Current version is from 2021

[OddOod]

What does the boot menu look like when this happens?

 

[Hassan170]

28 minutes ago, OddOod said:

What does the boot menu look like when this happens?

 

When the 2tb drive is plugged in with SATA it just stays on this screen indefinitely.

Ordinarily it only takes 10s from this screen to Windows.

BIOS doesn't detect the drive at all tho

It detects my other 2 drives but not the new one