HDD not showing up

[Zeinone]

Hi LTT! 

 

Recently I got a new hdd, its a seagate 1tb hdd, nothing special. I set it up in the case and tried to see if it works but i got nothing, i went to the BIOS and nothing shows up from it. My motherboard is Gigabyte H77M D3H, and i did connect it properly with the motherboard and PSU.

 

Any solutions?

[Simon771]

Is the hard drive spinning?

[Zeinone]

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2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Is the hard drive spinning?

Yes

[Simon771]

Check again if sata cables are connected correctly.

Go to windows and wait if there will be some device hardware change and windows updates.

 

Go to disk manager and see if you can see empty volume there.

 

If it's a new drive, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't show up in BIOS. It's highly unlikely that you bought brand new HDD and it's not working.

Recheck your sata cables, maybe use differend cable or differend sata slot on motherboard

[vorticalbox]

2 minutes ago, Zeinone said:

8

Yes

 

That means it has power but double check that the SATA cable is inserted correctly. Also try different cables and different ports.

[paddy-stone]

Agree with @Simon771... very good advice. Exactly what I would have suggested.

[Zeinone]

Hey guys. I've tried all of those things you suggested, I simply can't get it to work. It's not showing.

However I tried the same HDD on H61M-S1 (gigabyte) and it connected and is working. I can see it in the BIOS and everything. 

Now, H61 is an older motherboard, and I have no idea how it works on the older one but on the newer one it doesnt.
@Simon771 @vorticalbox

[Simon771]

4 minutes ago, Zeinone said:

Hey guys. I've tried all of those things you suggested, I simply can't get it to work. It's not showing.

However I tried the same HDD on H61M-S1 (gigabyte) and it connected and is working. I can see it in the BIOS and everything. 

Now, H61 is an older motherboard, and I have no idea how it works on the older one but on the newer one it doesnt.
@Simon771 @vorticalbox

Well in this case it must be something wrong with your motherboard.

Try and check if there is any BIOS update avaliable for your motherboard. If that doesn't help you, there is nothing else to do, than changing motherboard.

At least I don't see any other solution

[Zeinone]

Just now, Simon771 said:

Well in this case it must be something wrong with your motherboard.

Try and check if there is any BIOS update avaliable for your motherboard. If that doesn't help you, there is nothing else to do, than changing motherboard.

At least I don't see any other solution

Thank you very much, I'll try to see for updates.

[Ctown0812]

50 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Also try different cables and different ports.

Does your Gigabyte H77M currently have a working drive installed? @Zeinone

[Zeinone]

12 minutes ago, Ctown0812 said:

Does your Gigabyte H77M currently have a working drive installed? @Zeinone

Yes, 2 of them actually.

[Ctown0812]

36 minutes ago, Zeinone said:

Yes, 2 of them actually.

Assuming you haven't tried this already, unplug one of those and plug the new drive into that port, boot into your bios and see if it reads it then, since you know that those ports work.  If it still doesn't read it, then my only guess is that the hard drive is using a Master Boot Record partition style and, for whatever reason, your motherboard isn't recognizing it.  Modern hard drives should be using GUID partition tables.  Again, this is just a guess

[Zeinone]

44 minutes ago, Ctown0812 said:

Assuming you haven't tried this already, unplug one of those and plug the new drive into that port, boot into your bios and see if it reads it then, since you know that those ports work.  If it still doesn't read it, then my only guess is that the hard drive is using a Master Boot Record partition style and, for whatever reason, your motherboard isn't recognizing it.  Modern hard drives should be using GUID partition tables.  Again, this is just a guess

Tried everything, from checking all the ports, to changing the sata cable and checking all again, went to my older PC and it read it perfectly with both cables, its probably the Master Boot Record you were talking about that is somehow not working in my newer PC. Thanks for the help either way, highly appreciate it.