Drive recognized in bios but not in win7.

[ricleo2]

I have a 500 gb western digital hd that I can see in my mb bios but not in win7 64. I tried disk management but can't see it in there either. I see my other 3 hd's just fine. Any suggestions?

 

[corkyg]

Is it formatted NTFS?

 

[ricleo2]

Yes, the drive was formatted with info on it already. Another thing I noticed was the bios has it available for a boot choice but it shows the drive as not detected in another part of the bios. Could it be a motherboard issue?

 

[JesseKnows]

Do you see it in Device Manager?

 

[kschaffner]

Kinda odd for it detect in one portion of the BIOS and not the other. You could always try another port/cable or an external enclosure but if none of those work it is more than likely the drive since you said yourself it can pick up 3 other drives. I suppose there is the possibility of a compatibility issue so trying it on another machine via internal or external means might help narrow it down as well. Good luck.

 

[billbillw]

Does your board have more than one disc controller? I know many Gigabyte boards have a Gigabyte RAID controller that drives 2-4 SATA ports. Check the settings. Possibly connected as a RAID or AHCI drive, but you didn't give the drivers to Windows 7? If so, the easiest thing to do would be to set that controller to IDE mode.

 

[ricleo2]

Well I tried so many solutions I don't know which one worked. My best guess is this one: I noticed in device manager that "Accusys" storage controller would not start. After using a search engine I found a solution that said uninstall the device as well as the software and don't reboot. Then reinstall the 3.0 usb driver. Problem went away but strangely windows update says "Accusys Inc. - Storage - ACS-6xxxx" is available for download. When I install it from update the problem comes back. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

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