Hard drives being detected

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Hard drives being detected

by SkyNades Jul 5, 2015 12:59PM PDT

Um so I have 3 hard drives 2 are inside one is 1TB and the other is 500gb. The last hard drive is in a removable bay in the front of the computer. When the pc boots up it boots with the 500gb one but it just gives me a flashing line. Same happens with the 1TB. I'm guessing the " Removable Dev " in the Bios is the removable hard drive at the front. When I boot it from that it just gives me a boot0 error which someone previously told me that it wasn't detecting the drive. I have opened the pc and taken it out but I don't see anything that plugs in. I'm just trying to get this thing to work if not so I can get a new copy of windows to stop all this stress.

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mejustsayin · Answer 1 · Jul 5, 2015 2:52PM PDT

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which drive is os?

by mejustsayin Jul 5, 2015 2:52PM PDT

which drive has the os installed. it cannot be installed in removable drives. what OS? if oem computer, what is the full computer model? did it just stopped working or did you make any changes to the harddrive config and hasn't worked since?

r. proffitt · Answer 2 · Jul 5, 2015 2:56PM PDT

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Given how many removeables I found to fail

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 5, 2015 2:56PM PDT

Re-test it all without a drive bay or tray. Go direct.

James Denison · Answer 3 · Jul 5, 2015 4:06PM PDT

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If identified as "removable"

by James Denison Jul 5, 2015 4:06PM PDT

and you want an OS on there, you'd have to switch to Linux, which will load and run from removable drives, something Windows won't do.

If the BIOS gives you any awareness of it there, then the problem is connection between the drive bay and the drive, or the device itself isn't working. There would be both a data cable and a power cable into the drive tray

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