Hard Drives not being recognized. Looked for answer but no luck.

[DankShankster]

First things first. Hello Everyone. Newbie here 🙂

So yesterday my Rig took a dive. I thought well maybe just the SSD went bad since its a "SAN DISK Extreme". Since then I have replaced the OS Drive and reloaded the OS and all drivers updated versions. Now when I turn on my PC only a few of my hdd's are recognized I have 5 bays but only 3 of them are recognized in BIOS and Windows. I have changed cables, ensured plenty of power to the Rig, All hard drives have been tested and work individually but when I put them all together in the rig only 3/5 appear.

PC SPECS:
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
1 x Thermaltake Level 10 GT (VN10001W2N) Black SECC / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case with Four Fans-1x 200mm Colorshift
1 x ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard with 3-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support and UEFI BIOS
1 x Rosewill BRONZE Series RBR1000-M 1000W Continuous@40°C, 80Plus Bronze Certified,Modular Cable Design,Active
1 x AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8150FRGUBOX
1 x H100i Corsair Watercooling Unit
2 x XFX HD-697A-CNFC Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Driver Packaging Version 12.104-130328a-155980C-ATI
Catalyst Version 13.4
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1295
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0969
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.12217
AMD VISION Engine Control Center Version 2013.0328.2218.38225
1 x G.Skill 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
This one is the issue***1 x SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX-240G-G25 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)(Windows 7 Pro x64 bit) This has been replaced with 3TB Segate
1 x Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 10000 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
3 x 3TB Segate Barracuda
1 x Western Digital 2TB 7200 RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive
1 x 2TB Western Digital (External)
1 x Pro Raid Station with 8 x 3TB Segate 7200 RPM drives in 10 RAID
3 x HD Monitors, Eyefinity Crossfire,DP x2/1xHDMI
1 x Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
1 x G510 Logitech Gaming Keyboard
1 x Razer Death Adder 3500dpi 3.5g Infrared Gaming Mouse

[HiVizMan]

Go into Disk Manager and see if your disks are recorded there.

[DankShankster]

Yeah if there are not recognized in BIOS then Disk Manager wont see them either. But thanks and I double checked just to make sure 🙂

[sectionate]

Plug them in one at a time. Disconnect the power/sata cables when doing so and you will see if its a hardware problem. Why do you need 6 hds anyway,just wondering.

[DankShankster]

Thanks for the responses.
Yeah, They all work individually as I said.

I have a lot of media and other projects. And allows me to separate work and hobby items.

[DankShankster]

Ok, well i guess no one knows??

[HiVizMan]

I have seen heaps of posts about hot swap hard drive bays giving folks hassles. Not with this case so much, but wonder if that could the cause.

Is your system OC at all. Do you have this issue with F5 defaults set.


What bios have you tried.

[DankShankster]

BIOS
American Megatrends inc.
10/17/2012
1703

And yes that is the case even in defaults.

and i will check the hotswaps vs direct to drive, thanks for the suggestion

[HiVizMan]

OK mate will check back later.

[gilligan]

you might check to make sure you ar not trying to use the two asmedia sata ports as boot ports, check the manual for the locations.