Solved Why doesn't Windows 8 recognize my 2nd SATA HDD?

trueislander

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2 HDD's attached during Win8 installation, 1st was 500GB boot drive, 2nd was a (NTFS) 2TB HDD populated media drive. Was about to add my media folders to Plex Media Server when I noticed that only the boot drive (C:) appeared under My Computer. Found that odd so I restarted into BIOS settings and the 2nd HDD showed up fine. Booted into Windows and started Disk Manager and saw something I've never seen before. It could see the 2nd HDD, but no drive letter was assigned and it said "Foreign" where it normally has drive size and "Online." There's quite a bit of data on there, but it's backed up onto Crashplan so I suppose I could do a fresh format and re-populate with the data. Would be quite a PITA though. Any ideas? Googled it and haven't seen anyone else w/ this issue.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48574614/IMG_20120912_203330.jpg <--screenshot of Disk Manager seeing "Foreign" drive

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lready tried a Reset as per this thread Why doesn't Windows 8 recognize my 2nd SATA HDD? - Microsoft Answers and have posted this same question in the Win8 TechNet forum.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
This is a strange issue I wouldn't think Windows 8 would do, as this sounds more like an xp type thing.

But anyways, try right clicking on the drive in Disk Management and hit Import foreign drive. This may or may not work, but we'll see.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS
    CPU
    AMD FX 8320
    Motherboard
    Crosshair V Formula-Z
    Memory
    16 gig DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS R9 270
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
    x2 3 TB Toshibas
    Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
    PSU
    OCZ 500 watt
    Case
    A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
    Keyboard
    Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Touch Mouse
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014
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