hard drives on sata 2 and sata 3 controllers dont show at same time in windows 7 ultimate

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#175242 22-Jun-2015 20:04

I have windows 7 ultimate.

on sata 1 controller, i have the 500gb boot drive, split into 2 partitions, boot and data.

on sata 2 i have another data drive 1tb in size.

on sata 3 i have a new 1tb drive unused.

Now i cant get both of the drives on sata 2 and 3 to show at the same time in Windows. When sata 2 is disconnected, sata 3 shows. When sata 3 is disconnected , sata 2 shows.

When both sata 2 and sata 3 are connected, only sata 2 shows. Sata 3 doesn't show in windows disk management, or in the bios.

Any ideas?? I have a 500w power supply and an ati radeon 2900 pro video card. Is it the power supply?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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#1329496 22-Jun-2015 20:06

do they show in bios?

no setting in there to enable to allow them both to work?

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#1329508 22-Jun-2015 20:30

Jase2985: do they show in bios?

no setting in there to enable to allow them both to work?

Got me puzzled. Sata 3 shows as not enabled in bios, so looks like both drives cant work at the same time, either one or the other but when both connected only whats physically connected to sata 2 shows.

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#1329514 22-Jun-2015 20:36

Are they stacked sockets? I have had issues with one of them connecting in a stacked socket when there was a plug in the other one, the socket had been damaged somewhat from the controtred angle that the cables went into it as they were parallel to the board and hit the front of the case.

Thankfully board failed for other reasons and was swapeed out.

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#1329526 22-Jun-2015 20:45

richms: Are they stacked sockets? I have had issues with one of them connecting in a stacked socket when there was a plug in the other one, the socket had been damaged somewhat from the controtred angle that the cables went into it as they were parallel to the board and hit the front of the case.

Thankfully board failed for other reasons and was swapeed out.

Looking from the side view it's

sata 2 sata 6
sata 1 sata 5

the video card covers the rest of the sockets.

after shining the light i, i see the boot drive is connected to sata 2, the other drive is on sata1 and the other on sata 6.

Does that make a difference?

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#1329530 22-Jun-2015 20:48

Shouldnt do. They all will show on whatever port in the UEFI or BIOS setup but seems to not matter with actually using them. Try the other port if you havent, try swapping them around. There are some really shoddy sata plugs around that may be marginal if being pushed by the adjacent plug etc.

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#1329542 22-Jun-2015 21:10

i did have issues with my board and the location of drives in specific ports, it didnt like showing them in some ports, i had to fiddle round a bit to get them setup right.

i have 5 SATA HDD's and a SATA DVD burner.

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#1329620 22-Jun-2015 23:27

Okayyyy so it looks the mobo wants the hard drives connected sequentially, it wants the sata 3 socket used, i had to force it in past the graphics card , and i saw on the post all hard drives recognized. Problem is, the graphics card unseats slightly because of the forced in sata connecter so wont boot properly. blast it, why dont mobo manufacturers put these things in better places.

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#1329675 23-Jun-2015 08:43

get a right angled sata cable?