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JCInnes
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I have windows 10 on my new SSD and my old HDD but when I boot using the SSD my PC cannot find or recognise the other two Hard Drives (One has games on it and backup files and the other is literally everything else and the OS from before).

 

What do I do?

 

I want my PC to recognise both so I can transfer old stuff over

 

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2 minutes ago, JCInnes said:

I have windows 10 on my new SSD and my old HDD but when I boot using the SSD my PC cannot find or recognise the other two Hard Drives (One has games on it and backup files and the other is literally everything else and the OS from before).

 

What do I do?

 

I want my PC to recognise both so I can transfer old stuff over

 

So it does recognise the other drives booting from the old HDD?

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2 minutes ago, JCInnes said:

I have windows 10 on my new SSD and my old HDD but when I boot using the SSD my PC cannot find or recognise the other two Hard Drives (One has games on it and backup files and the other is literally everything else and the OS from before).

 

What do I do?

 

I want my PC to recognise both so I can transfer old stuff over

 

I'm assuming they're in ntfs format? Are the power and sata cables connected properly? Do other systems recognize them still?  

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I don't know if this will help but I just added a HDD to my PC (SSD was getting full). It found it in the BIOS but I couldn't find it in disk management. I ran windows Memory Diagnostics tool and boom - there it was. No idea why that worked but it did. Might help you out.

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19 hours ago, JCInnes said:

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Hey there JCInnes,

 

Could give more details regarding your situation such as the SSD and HDD brand and model, if you can see all of them in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management, do you have a OS on just the SSD or on both drives, have you cloned a drive, have you initialized/partitioned/formatted/assigned a drive letter to the drive.

 

Here's how to get to Device Manager and Disk Management and how to Partition a drive:
Device Manager: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=tihtkZ
Disk Management: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nHCEtD
Partition and format a drive: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=fPLdz0
Initialize a drive: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=HmJRjo

 

Have in mind that formatting a drive will erase a drive's data.

 

Feel free to ask if you happen to have a question!

 

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