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Peculiar windows 10 behaviour acting like "no drive recognized"
Ok not really sure what to title this or how to explain this so knowing where to post for best reply is also limited...anyways here goes.
I have windows 10, and had it on the rig I am using at this time to make this post, and all has worked perfectly fine no issues at all, until reciently, not sure how long its been.
I have 3 SSD drives, as the following:
C: OS boot drive (Samsung EVO 480GB)
D: (currently for testing purposes) Game drive 120GB
D: (normal drive but out of rig to eliminate dead drive) Games 480GB Samsung drive
E: storage drive (Sandisk SSD now 480GB drive (this drive is CURRENTLY working as expected and plugged in)
now here is the problem, and please bear with me as I try to explain this as best as I can...
I have my OS drive and game drive BOTH on the SATA 3 headers for my Asus H81M main board, now the previous board (smaller version of the one I am using now) first exhibited this issue causeing me to think bad drive, tossed my storage drive into an external adapter and it worked so I moved on thinking "ok I have a dead SATA port on the board, get a replacement, which worked out as I needed to move the internals into a smaller case anyways
now move to my current (new as of today, day of post) board, and Windows 10 will detect the OS drive PLUS one other drive, NOT both, I have swapped cables (sata) to confirm both are working, and they are, I am about to test with a second SATA cable to make sure one isn't bad, however if that is NOT the case is there ANY software settings I could look at to see if something is messing up the drives and how they are detected?
Thanks for the help and I am sorry in advanced if my explanation confuses people, I have also searched on google and seen other reports of similar behavior in windows 10 from other people experiencing the similar situation where one drive just "drops out"
EDIT:
I have checked with another known good SATA cable and the same issue still persists, I have also checked in the bios and c onfirmed that all three drives are seen and are confirmed working, if needed when I get home from work tomorrow I can take a picture in the BIOS screen to post here.