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problem with HD detection...

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dysaio

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I just put built my first computer (in sig) and all went well, except that windows doesn't seem to see one of my hard drives. When I installed them, I just plugged the SATA power connectors from the PSU into them, and then the other SATA connectors from them to the MB. They're in SATA slots 1 and 2. Neither is partitioned at all. When I boot up, both of them seem to be recognized, and they're both there in the BIOS, but in windows, only one (which has been, mysteriously, named the F drive) is visible, while two others (C and D) are visible in the "Drives with Removable Storage" area in my computer. When I try to click on either of those, though, a msg box comes up asking me to insert a disk.

Anyhow, any help here is appreciated. I'm pretty stumped.
 
Your C and D drive are from a USB card reader or something similar. Disconnect any such device when installing Windows to prevent the drive letter jumble from occuring.

Does your mobo have multiple SATA controllers, and if so, are both drives on the same host? Did you inadvertently create a RAID volume? Has the second disk been partitioned and formatted using Disk Management (Start\Run\diskmgmt.msc)?
 
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