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Error adding a 2nd internal hard drive
I was replacing My son' old computer and I decided to remove the HD and put it into my case for extra storage/back-up. When I start or restart the computer I get a screen I have never seen before on this computer. It is the American Maegtrends bios screen I believe. I've seen similar on older computers but haven't in quite a while. Down toward the bottom, it has an error saying Smart status bad, backup or replace, hit f-1 to enter setup. I believe it is doing this because it is trying to load off the 2nd drive but don't understand why it doesn't revert to the 1st drive. Then I go into the boot options then boot priority and disabled all except the correct internal drive. All my external drives were showing in the list as well. Again I get the same screen when I restart. I am able to go into the boot menu and select the correct drive and windows loads.
I went into disk management The 2nd drive was showing as active/primary partition. Oddly the C drive (the correct drive) was also showing as active/primary partition. I formatted the 2nd drive (both quick and regular format) and still get the same error on restart. I deleted the partition and created a new and still no help. Even after creating the new partition it was still showing active/primary. I looked for help online and the most popular fix was to open the command prompt and run DISKPART and typing a few commands. After doing this it no longer says active, but it still says primary. The correct drive also says primary but not active. When I right click it to try and make it active the "mark partition as active" is grayed out and I cannot select it. The 2nd drive is working as I can add files or folders to it. I am kind of at a loss her on what to do next.
Extra info just in case. The computer is an ASUS CM6730 running Win 10 64 bit. The correct drive is a Western Digital WDC10EZEX-22RKKA0. The 2nd drive is a Samsung HD753LJ. Both drives are SATA. There are 6 SATA ports on the MB. 2 SATA 6G at the bottom (the Correct C drive is plugged into the right) Just above those is t more SATA 6G the DVD drive is plugged into the left. Then there are 2 SATA 3G above that those were both empty. I have tried plugging the 2nd drive into all 4 of the unused ports hoping, all be it unsuccessfully, that would make a difference.
The 4 images in the attachments are the drive info for the 2 internal drives obtained through Speccy. Samsung 1 + 2 is the 2nd drive I am adding and WD 1 + 2 is the original internal drive.