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System Name | Black Box |
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Processor | Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 |
Motherboard | MSI E3 KRAIT Gaming v5 |
Cooling | Tt tower + 120mm Tt fan |
Memory | G.Skill 16GB 3600 C18 |
Video Card(s) | Asus GTX 970 Mini |
Storage | Kingston A2000 512Gb NVME |
Display(s) | AOC 24" Freesync 1m.s. 75Hz |
Case | Corsair 450D High Air Flow. |
Audio Device(s) | No need. |
Power Supply | FSP Aurum 650W |
Mouse | Yes |
Keyboard | Of course |
Software | W10 Pro 64 bit |
A bit of back ground first, I was given a recently new Lenovo laptop to fix that sounded like a typical hard drive failure, but the drive was already replaced once due to a similar issue.
All checks on the W.D. Blue drive came up good and it appeared the boot sector was corrupt, but all attempts to repair it failed and the drive would not show up in Disk Management when connected to another system.
I bought a new W.D. Black drive and tried to do a clean install, but now the new drive isn't found either.
I've been scratching my head over this for two days and am probably missing something simple, but I'm close to pulling my hair out and need help.
Any suggestions, ideas are welcome and appreciated, I know TPU has smarter people than me that do this for a living, help?
Edit, just a bit more info.... Both disks show in Disk Management on another system but do not show during the Windows install process on the laptop.
All checks on the W.D. Blue drive came up good and it appeared the boot sector was corrupt, but all attempts to repair it failed and the drive would not show up in Disk Management when connected to another system.
I bought a new W.D. Black drive and tried to do a clean install, but now the new drive isn't found either.
I've been scratching my head over this for two days and am probably missing something simple, but I'm close to pulling my hair out and need help.
Any suggestions, ideas are welcome and appreciated, I know TPU has smarter people than me that do this for a living, help?
Edit, just a bit more info.... Both disks show in Disk Management on another system but do not show during the Windows install process on the laptop.