Help With Recognizing Hard Drives?

[valhalla8]

Hey, I'm currently in the process of trying to get the computer I just built to work correctly. The motherboard is an ASUS P7P55S-E LX, and I'm having problems with the system recognizing hard drives I have installed.

This motherboard has two 6GB/s ports and 6 normal SATA ports. I can only get booting to work on the two 6GB/s ports, so I have my SSD connected to one. The problem is that when I connect my new 1TB HD drive to the SATA port (or even the 6 GB/s port), it is recognized in the BIOS correctly but when I boot windows I can't actually use the drive in My Computer or anything. I've reinstalled all the mobo SATA controllers; does anyone have any ideas? I have four total HDDs so I'm not really how to install the other three either, but my first concern is getting this to work.

Thanks a lot

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hey, I'm currently in the process of trying to get the computer I just built to work correctly. The motherboard is an ASUS P7P55S-E LX, and I'm having problems with the system recognizing hard drives I have installed.

This motherboard has two 6GB/s ports and 6 normal SATA ports. I can only get booting to work on the two 6GB/s ports, so I have my SSD connected to one. The problem is that when I connect my new 1TB HD drive to the SATA port (or even the 6 GB/s port), it is recognized in the BIOS correctly but when I boot windows I can't actually use the drive in My Computer or anything. I've reinstalled all the mobo SATA controllers; does anyone have any ideas? I have four total HDDs so I'm not really how to install the other three either, but my first concern is getting this to work.

Thanks a lot

The problem is getting a brand new HD recognized in Windows Explorer?

You have to partition and format the drive first, using Disk Management. Initialize the disk and create a volume, assign a drive letter, and format NTFS.

Once that is done, it should show up.

I don't think that your problem is hardware at this point.

 

[valhalla8]

Thank you for the quick response. That makes sense, I actually hadn't considered that-- I'm very new to this stuff. Hopefully that's the issue.

 

[Paperdoc]

I'm sure VirtualLarry has pointed you to the right solution. I encourage you to connect your HDD to the "normal" SATA ports (that is, the SATA 3Gb/s ports). No current mechanical HDD can exceed the 3 Gb/s max transfer rate, so putting it on a faster port just wastes that resource. Keep your fast port(s) for really fast devices like your SSD.