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I bought a new hard drive. (WD 1 TB Blue) I removed the old hard drive from the system. Connected to the system and checked the connections many times. but not visible in bios and boot screen.also hard drive activity light completely off. Hard drive death? or something else?
 
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Is it mechanical HDD or SSD? If SSD, is it SATA or NVMe? If NVMe, is it using PCI-E or SATA protocol?
 
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Rei said:
Is it mechanical HDD or SSD? If SSD, is it SATA or NVMe? If NVMe, is it using PCI-E or SATA protocol?
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Mechanical HDD
 
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Can u hear the HDD spinning? If not, try another SATA power connector.
 
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1. Have to cover the obvious ... but this is a secondary drive not the boot drive right ... yes been there, new HD hadnt been formatted or OS installed on PC dropped off :)

2. Many MoBos have multiple SATA choices ... one part of the system chipset and another provided by a 3rd party vendor. Is it connected to the same SATA set ? If in the 3rd party set, have the drivers been installed ?

3. Is it in the same SATA port as old one ?

4. Did you try ...

a) Shut down the system, remove old drive
b) Restart the system
c) Shut down the system, install new drive
d) Restart

I had this issue over 20 years ago ... not seen it in SATA era tho. I have had it with both RAID 0 and RAID 1 w/ SATA ... had to shut down, unplug cable, reboot, then shut down, inset cable and restart

5. You rechecked seating of power and data connections at both ends but have you tried swapping cables ? ... swapping ports ?

6. Have you "Reset BIOS to defaults
 
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