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December 30th, 2015 11:00
Seagate Drive in BIOS but can't see it in file manager
I installed a Solid State Drive as my boot drive earlier this week. It works fine. I want to use the 2TB Seagate that came with my Inspiron 3847 as a backup (slave)drive and I also want to take Windows 10 off of it. I can see the drive in the device manager (drive 1) and in BIOS (SATA 2), but I can't see it in the file manager so I can reformat it. This particular model (ST2000DM001-1ER64) has no jumpers to set it as a slave drive. Seagate says it's automatic. I'm stuck as to how I resolve this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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osprey4
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January 1st, 2016 03:00
Hi ssd user,
Happy New Year!
There's no such thing as master or slave with SATA drives. Try going to disk management, locate your drive and check if a drive letter has been assigned to it. I suspect you need to select a drive letter, then it should appear in file explorer.
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January 1st, 2016 06:00
Hello Osprey4,
I went to disk management and there was a message that said there is a signature collision with a disk that is online. I've never seen this before. I checked the drive id's and they were different. I wasn't sure why the message was there (?). Anyway, I right clicked and selected online and Voila!
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!