I have a SATA USB harness that plugs in any 2 1/2" drive so I can pull or access all data on a hard drive. My problem is that the computer fails to detect it at all. SATA Hard Drive Not Detected by Motherboard. I have quadruple checked, all the SATA power and data cables are properly attached. I have what i think is the same problem. It appears the motherboard is detecting the hard drive looking at your video just fine so not sure why you initially state it is recognising it. Just swapped drives last week. My old drive, running XP, is the old IDE type and I have bought a new SATA hard drive on which to install Vista. - SATA HDD cannot complete the installation of operating system after enabling AHCI or RAID function. The SATA ports on my motherboard behave quite strange lately. dilen asked on 2005-03-02. These are 1TB drives from 2014, so not that old. I have an Asus motherboard which supports SATA. Storage; 10 Comments. Finally when I did manage to get a DVD drive to not blow out from being fried, it didn’t read anything I put in the drive. My motherboard is not detecting the hard drives I have installed! are there any limitation on the amount of hard drives ? one 1 TB HDD. - SATA HDD cannot complete the installation of operating system after enabling AHCI or RAID function. Using a Samsung NVME drive for boot and it is working great. Specs: Asus P5G41T-M LX Plus Intel Q9300 @ stock Nvidia GTS 250 Gskill DDR3 1066 8gig The SATA drive i'm trying to detect is WD3200AAJS 320gb. Unfortunately, I have run into a snag. I do not like the idea of not keeping Windows updated. My optical drive seems to be working fine no matter which SATA port I use. Legacy/IDE, ACHI/SATA, or RAID mode. 1,436 Views. SATA devices connected to it may show one or more of the following symptoms from time to time: - SATA devices not detected at POST stage or inside CMOS setup screen. Hello I have a Asus B450-F gaming, that is not detecting a HDD current HDD set up - two M2 hard drives - one SSD 500 GB - connected on - one SSD 1 TB - one 2 TB HDD. Also i have two other sata drives (160 and 80) and they arent being detected either. New Gigabyte H370-HD3 does not recognize Western Digital SATA hard drives. Even switching from the SATA 2 to SATA 3 controller can result in such a boot loop. The system Read the drive but the drive itself wouldn’t read anything. The Asus Z170M-Plus motherboard just sucks. Bought the designare board. It literally blew 2 DVD drives and 2 Sata HDD and I mean fried them when I turned on the comp. and the one that is not being recognized is. Asus p8z68 motherboard not detecting hard drive. SATA devices connected to it may show one or more of the following symptoms from time to time: - SATA devices not detected at POST stage or inside CMOS setup screen. The board recognizes a (new) SATA optical drive, and it recognizes USB flash drives when plugged in. 1 Solution. They show as [Not Installed] in the Peripherals tab of the configuration interface. I also swap motherboards without losing activation. Last Modified: 2012-05-05. I have another hard drive on the shelf from a dead HP that I just plug into any HP and update to current build. I finally got my hands on another hard drive with an OS installed and plugged in into the SATA … I just recently completed a new system build. A repair install or best yet a complete format and install of Windows will fix that. Updated to the newest version of Windows 10 and started to have issues with the board recognizing the hard drives. Added a few Hard Drives and they also worked. The bios also complains and I have to hit (for some reason) to enable the old drive to continue with the boot up. The SATA ports on my motherboard behave quite strange lately. 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