NO STORAGE DEVICES CONNECTED ERROR PLEASE HELP!!!!

[Lavaix]

So I built a PC today but when I went to boot it up, I got the following error:-

"Error: No storage device(s) are detected. Press Enter to go back to Legacy BIOS. Press F8 to troubleshoot"

Anyone knows what might be the problem? I have two 500 GB Hard Drives connected, and one 128GB SSD.

When I press F8 to troubleshoot my PC detects everything but again no hard drive or SSD is detected. I took them out and plugged them back in but to no avail. 

I would be glad if someone has some simple fix.

[Robchil]

1 hour ago, Lavaix said:

So I built a PC today but when I went to boot it up, I got the following error:-

"Error: No storage device(s) are detected. Press Enter to go back to Legacy BIOS. Press F8 to troubleshoot"

Anyone knows what might be the problem? I have two 500 GB Hard Drives connected, and one 128GB SSD.

When I press F8 to troubleshoot my PC detects everything but again no hard drive or SSD is detected. I took them out and plugged them back in but to no avail. 

I would be glad if someone has some simple fix.

checked the power plug at the PSU side too?.. 

[Whatisthis]

Go into bios and check the sata options. It can default to disabled for sata ports which would cause this issue.

 

Do you see the drives in bios?

 

If you do, then you just need to put your windows install usb into the computer and boot from that. The installer should find your drives and then you can stick windows on the SSD.

 

 

[Lavaix]

56 minutes ago, Robchil said:

checked the power plug at the PSU side too?.. 

As you know I made a thread a few days ago regarding my PSU not having sufficient power connectors. Well I bought brand new parts and everything. But I didn't bought new storage drives. Maybe that's the reason they aren't detecting? The SATA power and data cables both are plugged in.

[Lavaix]

50 minutes ago, Whatisthis said:

Go into bios and check the sata options. It can default to disabled for sata ports which would cause this issue.

 

Do you see the drives in bios?

 

If you do, then you just need to put your windows install usb into the computer and boot from that. The installer should find your drives and then you can stick windows on the SSD.

 

 

The BIOS doesn't even recognize the drives. I went to the boot sequence option but it showed no drives in there.

[Whatisthis]

3 hours ago, Lavaix said:

The BIOS doesn't even recognize the drives. I went to the boot sequence option but it showed no drives in there.

Make sure the sata controller is not disabled in bios. You didn’t give specs, so I can’t be more specific on the bios options but there is usually an entry for storage controllers.

[Lavaix]

47 minutes ago, Whatisthis said:

Make sure the sata controller is not disabled in bios. You didn’t give specs, so I can’t be more specific on the bios options but there is usually an entry for storage controllers

There is not an option for sata controller in my bios. I changed a few settings and it gave this error:-

"No devices were found in MBR Legacy BIOS. Please switch to UEFI BIOS to acces GPT drives. Press Enter to go back to Legacy BIOS. Press F8 for troubleshooting."

Any suggestions anyone?

[Whatisthis]

If you don’t have ANY drives get detected in bios, that’s not a good sign.

 

Can you plug in your windows install USB and see if it detected? Some boards need the windows installer to load a driver in order for disks to start working. Launch the installer and see if it finds your disks. Usually this applies to nvme drives, but stranger things have happened.

 

Yeah, you want UEFI turned on / CSM turned off.

[Lavaix]

7 hours ago, Whatisthis said:

If you don’t have ANY drives get detected in bios, that’s not a good sign.

 

Can you plug in your windows install USB and see if it detected? Some boards need the windows installer to load a driver in order for disks to start working. Launch the installer and see if it finds your disks. Usually this applies to nvme drives, but stranger things have happened.

 

Yeah, you want UEFI turned on / CSM turned off.

It worked. I switched from Legacy to UEFI in my BIOS and it showed up all the drives.