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  • Mike1119
    PCHF Member
    • Dec 2024
    • 3

    #1

    Second internal drive not showing

    Laptop with two internal hard drives. Both have Windows installed.

    The primary drive is no longer accessible. It shows on the BIOS SATA screen. It is absent on the BIOS Boot screen. After Windows loads, Disk Manager does not show there’s a second drive at all.

    Why would it show on SATA and not BOOT menu? Is there something I can do?

    Thanks.
  • xrobwx71
    PCHF Moderator
    • Mar 2023
    • 1058

    #2
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    • Mike1119
      PCHF Member
      • Dec 2024
      • 3

      #3
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      • Mike1119
        PCHF Member
        • Dec 2024
        • 3

        #4

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        • phillpower2
          PCHF Administrator
          • Sep 2016
          • 15206

          #5
          Only one storage device is being detected.

          Can you post the model name or number of this ASUS notebook.
          Originally posted by Mike1119
          The primary drive is no longer accessible. It shows on the BIOS SATA screen. It is absent on the BIOS Boot screen.
          Can I ask how the HDD/SSD is identified in the BIOS, a Seagate HDD for example will be listed something like ST1000DM004, a Western Digital along the lines of WD10JPLX or WDS100T1BOE and a WD Black SSD SDDPNQD-512G other brands will have similar identification codes, only when such an ID code is present is a HDD or SSD actually detected and an entry simply listed as SATA HDD means that the BIOS will and has looked for a HDD in that particular boot sequence but no HDD/SSD was detected.

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          • phillpower2
            PCHF Administrator
            • Sep 2016
            • 15206

            #6
            Originally posted by phillpower2
            Can you post the model name or number of this ASUS notebook.
            No need, using information provided by both the OP and Speccy the OP appears to have the notebook at the link here

            Being that the OP has abandoned their thread and[COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)] the user manual shows that there is only room for the one storage device meaning that there is no missing hard drive this thread will be closed.[/COLOR]

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