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Re: bios wont recognize two hard drives at same time
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2018, 10:24:19 AM »
Were both OS's installed on the SSD's on this PC ? ?
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    Re: bios wont recognize two hard drives at same time
    « Reply #16 on: January 12, 2018, 02:17:03 PM »
    Hi
    I think we are confusing drives not being detected in the boot menu and drives being detected in the bios.
    From the manual for your board.

    SATA Power on PORT0~SATA Power on PORT5
    Enables or disables each SATA port. (Default: Enabled)

    Can you check please in the bios, peripherals group that all the sata ports are enabled.

    Here is the board manual link, as you have a later bios the settings may not be the same.
    http://download.gigabyte.cn/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-970a-d3p_v.2.x_e.pdf

    Check out section 2-5

    Seems you can set the power state of each individual Sata port 

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    Re: bios wont recognize two hard drives at same time
    « Reply #17 on: January 12, 2018, 02:31:48 PM »
    Nice Catch...
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    Re: bios wont recognize two hard drives at same time
    « Reply #18 on: January 12, 2018, 03:57:48 PM »
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    I still have not been able to get the bios boot sequence to recognize two hard drives at the same time, only individually when the other is not plugged in.
    That is how it is on most current Desktop Systems. Otherwise, you have to have a custom BIOS to select another drive of the same type inside the BIOS firmware.
    This link is about how to boot from second internal drive.
    http://smallbusiness.chron.com/boot-secondary-hard-drive-53295.html
    But he only considers the older PATA, also called  IDE,  drives that have not been in new machines for years.
    Some report that when you have two SATA drives running, you night not be able to boot the system.
    http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3056911/boot-secondary-ssd-plugged.html
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    I think this may be what I did wrong...
    While I was looking at the sata devices, I realized they were labeled sata2 and sata3. These corresponded to a red bank and a black bank of ports. I switched the new hard drive into the same bank et voila! Fixed.
    I'm going to have to go dig up my manual and read up on that.
    What? Read the manual?  Never!  >:(