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Edvins 25.12.21 09:53 pm

Problem with installing a second SSD drive

On my mat. ASUS P8Z77 VLK board has two SATA 3 connectors. One is connected to an SSD SATA 3 240Gb (drive C) with Windows 7 64, and the other is a hard drive (drive D). The second SATA 3 SSD drive with Windows 10 already installed was connected to the SATA 3 slot instead of the HDD, and the
HDD to the SATA 2 slot. After a normal boot, the computer saw only the new SSD drive, and the old SSD and HDD (drive D) did not recognize. I reinstalled Windows 10 from this computer, but the same thing. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
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Shadows3D 25.12.21

Edvins
what at the same time? if the BIOS does not see three physical screws with such a connection, then the problem is in the BIOS and you can contact the support service. motherboards (perhaps you need to update the BIOS) if Windows does not see it, this is another question

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Edvins 25.12.21

Koment at 01.34 - does not see Win. I saw physical disks in BIOS.

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Shadows3D 25.12.21

Edvins
Windows in any case should see 3 physical devices, another question is that it may not understand where to boot from and how the screws are formatted, install, for example, AIDA and see how many physical. devices visible

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Edvins 25.12.21

The SATA 2 connector, where the HDD was inserted, turned out to be inoperative and, possibly, somehow influenced the neighboring SATA 3. I connected the HDD to another
SATA 2 connector, arranged it in the necessary order in the BIOS. Thank God, now Windows sees all three drives (C, D, E). Thank you all for your help!