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So I haven't had my PC on for a bout a week and a half because I sent my previous PSU (AX 760) in for RMA cause there was a large scratch on the front. So today it came in and everything was working great.... except for the fact that both my hard drives wont even spin up. My SSD works just fine so I know it's not my PSU but I am starting to think both my drives have died. But it seems really suspicious they would both die at the same time. I bought one of them a year after I bought the first one. Which was back in 2014. Any suggestions or advice?

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Just now, GalacticRuler said:

Is your SSD M.2 by any chance? If it is, M.2 disables certain SATA ports. If not, try your hard drives in different SATA ports.

Nope it's not M.2 it's a Samsung 850 EVO, and yea I've swapped the hard drives between every SATA port I can and I get the same results. The HDDs aren't even turning on for some reason.

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Just now, rrblack said:

Nope it's not M.2 it's a Samsung 850 EVO, and yea I've swapped the hard drives between every SATA port I can and I get the same results. The HDDs aren't even turning on for some reason.

Faulty SATA power connectors, mabye?

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Test both drives with the SATA power cable that is powering your SSD since you've already verified that specific SATA power cable works.

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Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Test both drives with the SATA power cable that is powering your SSD since you've already verified that specific SATA power cable works.

Yep I have and everything attached to it works except my 2 hard drives :(

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Both could be fried then if you don't hear either of them spinning.

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Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Both could be fried then if you don't hear either of them spinning.

That's what I was also thinking sadly. But I don't know how that would happen cause I haven't even used my PC for almost 2 weeks and everything worked fine right before I sent in my old PSU.

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