Second SSD doesn't appear in Disk Management [SOLVED]

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My RMA on my MSI G45 came and it works (thankfully) and mostly everything is working properly....

But....my second (older SATA II) SSD doesn't show up. Windows 7 sees and can read it as an external drive when I connect it via USB, but it doesn't show up in disk management.

I have a new SATA III SSD as my OS drive.

Any ideas why?

[_I_]

does it show up in bios?

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Okay. Tried some stuff.

Shows up in bios but won't let me select it as a boot drive. My mobo even lets me check what device is plugged into what port and it sees the secondary SSD.

When I load up Windows, it appears in my computer but when I go to open it, my system hangs and any software accessing it including disk management crash.

However, when I remove the disk as an external, everything is hunky dory, not problems, no crashing, nothing wrong.

I ran the Sandisk Toolkit and there's no new firmware.

What gives? I'm really baffled here what's going on.

Drive is physically fine, it's just Windows is having a severe problem treating it like any other drive.

Could it be that I have two SSDs from two different companies?

[_I_]

in bios is it set to ahci mode?

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Opprinnelig skrevet av _I_:

in bios is it set to ahci mode?

Yes.

[_I_]

was it in an external usb enclosure?
or esata with or without an enclosure

edit: nevermind

some usb enclosures change the file system format slightly
you may need to back it up via usb, then install it as internal, then format it again

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I used one of those SATA to USB connectors.

It's empty, I formatted it (which was the plan). My system crashes before I can get a format off as an internal.

I may try to install Windows on it, don't register and then see if the existing Windows Install will read it without crashing. Then I could do a format from there. That's all I can come up with.

[_I_]

when its plugged into usb, try to unpartition it, then partition from windows as sata

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Tried that. No dice. Deleted the partition, then formated it and it still disappearing.

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same thing happened to me all i did was install it on the computer than booted up into windows install. format the ssd in install mode but didnt install windows 7 on it exit install and rebooted computer than used my old ssd as a a drve for only games works like a charm

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Opprinnelig skrevet av itcheytoplay:

same thing happened to me all i did was install it on the computer than booted up into windows install. format the ssd in install mode but didnt install windows 7 on it exit install and rebooted computer than used my old ssd as a a drve for only games works like a charm

Alright, I'll try that. Man, this is a devilish Gremlin.

It's the last real problem I have to sort out on my new rig.

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Damnit. Didn't work. But I did get a message saying that the controller may be disabled.

Could that be why Windows doesn't see it but BIOS does?

My Bios is already set to ACHI, how do I enable it specifically on one drive?

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Figured it out. Had to change in my BIOS the SATA port to Hotswap for Windows to read it reliably.