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Okay, I think I post about this elsewhere, but I'll put it here too. I forgot about this forum.

I have a older high end system with mostly Corsair components and a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P (REV 1.3) motherboard. So it has a 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD, 16GB DRAM and Windows 10 Pro. So the HDD just disappeared one day, and of course no longer shows up in the BIOS. I held it in my hand and didn't feel anything, so assumed it had died. Fortunately Windows is on the SSD, so the system boots up. So I purchased a replacement 2TB HDD, but it doesn't show up in BIOS either.

Thoughts?
 
I'm assuming it's a SATA drive?

Change the cable.

Try plugging it into a different SATA port..

If Windows sees it format it.

Check your BIOS setting. If there's a enable ATA/SATA drive make sure it is enabled..
 
Also make sure you are getting power to the HD.
 
American said:
Okay, I think I post about this elsewhere, but I'll put it here too. I forgot about this forum.

I have a older high end system with mostly Corsair components and a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P (REV 1.3) motherboard. So it has a 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD, 16GB DRAM and Windows 10 Pro. So the HDD just disappeared one day, and of course no longer shows up in the BIOS. I held it in my hand and didn't feel anything, so assumed it had died. Fortunately Windows is on the SSD, so the system boots up. So I purchased a replacement 2TB HDD, but it doesn't show up in BIOS either.

Thoughts?
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Here are a couple links that basically talk about doing the same things to fix your problem.

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