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R4E SSD and HHD not showing up in Windows 7

Igorek247
Level 7

‎09-25-2012 08:04 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 07:18 PM by Community Admin

Hey guys. Got a problem with my PC. When I start my PC and go in Windows, I only see my C drive, the one Windows is installed. I also have another SSD and HDD, but they wont show up. When I go to BIOS and reset data, save and restart, I am then able to see the drives normally functioning. However, when I restart my PC I'm facing the same problem again and again. I've tried to play with settings in BIOS but so far no luck 😕
My setup is: SSD on SATA3 (Windows installed), another SSD SATA2, and HHD also SATA2.
Anyone's help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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HalloweenWeed
Level 12

‎09-25-2012 08:20 PM

Your CMOS battery is dead. Replace it.
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Tweakurr
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In response to HalloweenWeed

‎09-25-2012 08:26 PM

HalloweenWeed wrote:
Your CMOS battery is dead. Replace it.



This would be true if the system was powered off but if only a restart than the board is retaining power and does not rely on the cmos battery save the profile. So are you powering off or just restarting?
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Igorek247
Level 7
In response to Tweakurr

‎09-25-2012 08:28 PM

Tweakurr wrote:
This would be true if the system was powered off but if only a restart than the board is retaining power and does not rely on the cmos battery save the profile. So are you powering off or just restarting?


Either powering off or restarting the system I wont be able to see other drives in Windows
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snout
Level 9
In response to Igorek247

‎09-25-2012 09:03 PM

Had a similar issue myself, had to format the Drives before the system would see them on a new install. Its not the battery, wrong symptoms for battery fail.
Go into: control panel / administrative tools / computer management / Disk management, if you cannot see them you will need to format them.
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Igorek247
Level 7
In response to snout

‎09-25-2012 09:13 PM

snout wrote:
Had a similar issue myself, had to format the Drives before the system would see them on a new install. Its not the battery, wrong symptoms for battery fail.
Go into: control panel / administrative tools / computer management / Disk management, if you cannot see them you will need to format them.


Thanks for the info snout. Hard to format 2TB HDD thou since its almost full...
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Igorek247
Level 7
In response to Igorek247

‎09-25-2012 09:31 PM

Just found a solution myself. All I had to do was connect HDD to SATA3 port and now it works fine. Thanks for all your support guys!
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Igorek247
Level 7
In response to HalloweenWeed

‎09-25-2012 08:26 PM

Are you sure its battery? All the other settings in BIOS are saving fine...
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HiVizMan
Level 40

‎09-26-2012 01:47 AM

Good to see that you found the fix, thread closed.
To help us help you - please provide as much information about your system and the problem as possible.
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