2TB HDD not showing up on my pc

Specs on new computer: i7-4790k @4.0ghz; ASUS Strix GTX970; Noctua D15; MSI g45 z97 Gaming Motherboard; ASUS Optical Drive; 250gb 850EVO ssd; 2TB seagate internal hard drive; 750w G2 PSU by EVGA; Silent Base 800; running Windows 8.1 Pro

My seagate 2TB Internal HDD is not showing up in the BIOS or the 'My Computer' thing. I used the red S ATA cable it came with because I used the two that came with my motherboard for my ODD and SSD. I see and feel it spinning around in there but my computer isn't displaying it. It said not to plug it in to SATA port 6, so I didn't. My ODD and SSD are in SATA ports 3&4 I believe. Any advice? This is getting pretty frustrating. Thanks.

Go to disk manager and see if its there, if it is it likely needs to properly formatted however it could something as simple as those ports aren't enabled in the bios or the cable is bad or not seated properly. Check all the easy things first and then you can start to go deeper.

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If it's a m sata ssd then sure, drive letters don't really matter except that your main drive in a Windows computer is always the C: Drive and before you partition the drive try updating the drivers or seeing why its not working properly.

Both MSI boards I owned, I had to download the Asmedia sata drivers through the MSI Live update thing, install and reboot. My drives shown up after that. MSI boards are weird. I had to dig the disk that came with mine out of the garbage to install the driver for the Killer Nic so I could connect to the internet

  • Change cable
  • Any SATA port will suffice. If you are plugging into a 3rd party chipset (eg Marvell) be sure to install the appropriate drivers. Refer to the manual.
  • If different cable (one you know works) & no visual of the drive in the BIOS then chances are its DOA. Not uncommon for the low end Seagate drives to be DOA. So wrap it up and RMA it.