Drivers Question

[Jiminimity]

So, I finally made the move to my new parts, and MOSTLY everything is working like a charm. Windows 11 runs great, 7800X3d running fine, Aorus x670 Elite AX running smoothly (especially after the up-to-date BIOS update). However, my SATA HDD drives are simply not showing up. One of them is being detected in Q-Flash, but no more than that, and the other might just not be showing up at all. I can't partition either.

I'm trying to update the SATA drivers to hopefully get them to work, but I just don't know how to do that in the first place, and I was wondering how I can update them?


TL;DR Sata HDDs not showing in PC, trying to update SATA drivers, don't know how

[Jiminimity]

I plugged in my brother's HDD that we know was working, and nothing came up still, so I imagine it's got to be something with the cords. I don't know id they're dead or what, but I'm going to begin going down the list as soon as I can. Yes, all cords are fully and firmly plugged in (I gave them a gentle tug), and I have changed SATA ports to no avail.

[plat]

Is the boot order proper in the UEFI? If nothing else works, I guess return the board for a replacement. It should never be this difficult and obscure to get a SATA drive working. Maybe contact the vendor and describe the problem.

Generic Microsoft storage controllers should be able to connect with those drives in a board with working ports.

[emoticorpse]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Duende:

I plugged in my brother's HDD that we know was working, and nothing came up still, so I imagine it's got to be something with the cords. I don't know id they're dead or what, but I'm going to begin going down the list as soon as I can. Yes, all cords are fully and firmly plugged in (I gave them a gentle tug), and I have changed SATA ports to no avail.

Careful man, I ended up like wiping a drive or even messing up it's partition header or whatever after so much disconnecting/reconnecting the sata connector and I lost everything on it and ended up needing to use the Seagate Tools thing to fix it.

If you are going to experiment, try to use drives with expendable data until you figure out what's up between the bad cables/bad mobo or whatever. If it was just software it wouldn't be as risky.

[Jiminimity]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von emoticorpse:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Duende:

I plugged in my brother's HDD that we know was working, and nothing came up still, so I imagine it's got to be something with the cords. I don't know id they're dead or what, but I'm going to begin going down the list as soon as I can. Yes, all cords are fully and firmly plugged in (I gave them a gentle tug), and I have changed SATA ports to no avail.

Careful man, I ended up like wiping a drive or even messing up it's partition header or whatever after so much disconnecting/reconnecting the sata connector and I lost everything on it and ended up needing to use the Seagate Tools thing to fix it.

If you are going to experiment, try to use drives with expendable data until you figure out what's up between the bad cables/bad mobo or whatever. If it was just software it wouldn't be as risky.

To be fair, I planned on wiping both drives once I got them to work, I just did a fresh Windows 11 reinstall and wanted a clean slate, but since the drives aren't connecting I can't really wipe them yet. I don't even know how to check if they're plugged into the PSU because I don't know what cord I'm looking for, as my father put the drives in in the first place.

Edit: I did want to mention, he did the PSU and MOBO side of the cords, I simply took out the HDD after a gentle unplug and switched it out for the known-to-be-working HDD, then plugged the same cord heads into the back of that. I myself did the HDD switch, he put in the MOBO/CPU/everything else.

[emoticorpse]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Duende:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von emoticorpse:

Careful man, I ended up like wiping a drive or even messing up it's partition header or whatever after so much disconnecting/reconnecting the sata connector and I lost everything on it and ended up needing to use the Seagate Tools thing to fix it.

If you are going to experiment, try to use drives with expendable data until you figure out what's up between the bad cables/bad mobo or whatever. If it was just software it wouldn't be as risky.

To be fair, I planned on wiping both drives once I got them to work, I just did a fresh Windows 11 reinstall and wanted a clean slate, but since the drives aren't connecting I can't really wipe them yet. I don't even know how to check if they're plugged into the PSU because I don't know what cord I'm looking for, as my father put the drives in in the first place.

Edit: I did want to mention, he did the PSU and MOBO side of the cords, I simply took out the HDD after a gentle unplug and switched it out for the known-to-be-working HDD, then plugged the same cord heads into the back of that. I myself did the HDD switch, he put in the MOBO/CPU/everything else.

As far as the HDD goes, did it even spin up? You're going to have to open the back panel of the case I guess and actually look at the sata cables and follow it back to the PSU and see if they're actually connected?

[_I_]

did you change psu?
if its modular, you need to keep the cables with each psu, they often use the same connectors but with different pinouts

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The AHCI are not separate Drivers; at least for the AMD Chipset; these are included as part of the AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver.

However if you have 6 or 8 SATA Ports; the ones labeled 4-7 are usually via ASMedia Chipset; which requires it's own Driver install, but Win10/11 should have a basic one it can install itself so AHCI Drives should be seen through that just fine. They should be seen properly through the AMD Chipset as well, just that they not perform to their fullest until after the AMD Chipset Driver has been installed and OS has been rebooted.

If all the SATA Ports have been enabled in BIOS and set to AHCI and OS still not seeing certain SATA Drives, then you are obviously using a SATA Port that is shared with the M2. When an M2 NVME is in use this usually will require it to disable 2x SATA Ports.

[Jiminimity]

So I switched out the cords for the HDDs, and they still haven't decided to work. When I installed Windows 11, I didn't install any drivers with it, I just installed them after the main install, so the Gigabyte Preinstall RAID drivers were never installed.

I don't know if that has anything to do with the HDDs not showing up in SATA, but I have no idea how to install them now without a complete reinstall. I also can't do that without losing my activation due to having to use an OEM to install, so I'm just not sure what to do anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.