Working hard drive not showing up in BIOS

[BadneckRedneck]

Hello,

 

I recently bought a new pc and I wanted to add my old 1TB HDD to the 160gb HDD that was pre-installed.

I tried only booting from the 1tb to test if it was conflicting with the 160gb drive.

The drive does not show up in the BIOS in my new pc.

It is working in my old pc without any problem.

I tried plugging it into a another SATA port and swapped the SATA cables.

 

Specs of new pc:

CPU: AMD FX 8350

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

RAM:4x4GB Corsair DDR3

GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 670 2GB

PSU: Cooler Master 750watt non modular

[Uptivuptiz]

Does the old drive have any data on it?

[Changis]

12 minutes ago, BadneckRedneck said:

Hello,

 

I recently bought a new pc and I wanted to add my old 1TB HDD to the 160gb HDD that was pre-installed.

I tried only booting from the 1tb to test if it was conflicting with the 160gb drive.

The drive does not show up in the BIOS in my new pc.

It is working in my old pc without any problem.

I tried plugging it into a another SATA port and swapped the SATA cables.

 

Specs of new pc:

CPU: AMD FX 8350

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

RAM:4x4GB Corsair DDR3

GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 670 2GB

PSU: Cooler Master 750watt non modular

booting from the 1tb wont work if you havent installed windows on it.. 
does it show up in windows disk manager?

[BadneckRedneck]

35 minutes ago, simonbyrial said:

Does the old drive have any data on it?

Yes

[Uptivuptiz]

1 minute ago, BadneckRedneck said:

Yes

Alright. If it contains any data you want to save make a backup and then format the drive.

[AshleyAshes]

1 hour ago, simonbyrial said:

Alright. If it contains any data you want to save make a backup and then format the drive.

That would have zero effect on it being detected as an attached device in the BIOS or not...

[exercutor5]

3 hours ago, BadneckRedneck said:

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Is the operating system installed on the 1TB HDD in UEFI or legacy BIOS mode? And maybe the specs of your old PC may also help.

[BadneckRedneck]

1 hour ago, exercutor5 said:

Is the operating system installed on the 1TB HDD in UEFI or legacy BIOS mode? And maybe the specs of your old PC may also help.

The OS is currently installed on the 160GB HDD.

The specs of my old pc are:

CPU: Intel core 2 quad q6600
Motherboard ASUS P5K-E/WIFI AP

RAM: OCZ gold 2x2GB DDR2

GPU: MSI Radeon hd 6870 Twin Frozr II

[AshleyAshes]

It's a shot in the dark but maybe this 1TB drive is old and has some odd quirks.  Can you list the model number?

[BadneckRedneck]

Just now, AshleyAshes said:

It's a shot in the dark but maybe this 1TB drive is old and has some odd quirks.  Can you list the model number?

The Hard Drive is a samsung HD103SJ

[AshleyAshes]

Huh, weird.  I can actually find examples online of people having the same complaint.  "It works in the old PC but not in the new one."

[AshleyAshes]

At least ONE person suggested that the HDD's firmware had to be updated.  I found more examples.  It seems this is a known issue for this drive.

 

...Assuming anyone is even still hosting the firmware update stuff and such.

 

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/108394/

 

Even on this 2010 post by Asus support they say the drive has a firmware incompatibility thought heir link to the update is now dead.

[AshleyAshes]

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223631en?language=en-ca

 

I think that's it?  Assuming those update programs work on a modern PC.

[BadneckRedneck]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223631en?language=en-ca

 

I think that's it?  Assuming those update programs work on a modern PC.

I will try this tomorrow after I tried some other HDD's that I have lying around and check if those are working in my system