I remove it, plug my old one back in (Bios shows boot options as "Boot Option 1: Windows Boot Manager (P1 *drive name*) and bingo, everything works flawlessly. I try the three other sata connections on the motherboard, nothing. I remove one RAM stick at a time (despite working fine on the previous hdd) no difference. I shut the pc off and repeat, my hard drive has vanished again and Windows installation can't find it!? I plugged it, replugged it in, doesn't exist again. I delete the original installation and reinstall. I change the boot options to USB and go to reinstall Windows. I go back into BIOS, restore the defaults and set it to Windows 8/8.1 preset in boot options, this eliminates Legacy+UEFI and makes it stricty UEFI and sets my boot options as the following: The pc fans go insane whenever this screen appears and suddenly the pc rapidly heats up to 70c, despite being just 35c before this screen appears. I updated all drivers, had everything running smooth for a few hours and then the pc restarts itself and. I hit save and restart, the pc booted into Windows 8.1 once I put the Windows Boot Manager first, it wouldn't boot at all if 'Hard Disk' was first. My boot options come up as the followingīoot Option 1 - UEFI Hard Disk: Windows Boot Managerīoot Option 2 - Hard Disk: HGST HTS7201010A9E630 Rebooted into BIOS and bingo, its there in a Legacy+UEFI its not like my old one showed (My previous drive looked like "UEFI Hard Disk: Windows Boot Manager (P1 *drive name here*). Sure enough my hard drive was missing from the boot options? I unplugged it all, re-connected it, thinking perhaps the sata cable didn't go in properly (HTPC case can be fiddly with my big hands). Nothing worked, so I typed exit and got back into the BIOS. However during windows update it froze and forced a restart. Everything went perfectly, it booted is super fast, worked flawlessly. I swapped them out using the same connections, nothing else was changed and installed Windows 8.1 via USB. So I bought a brand new internal hard drive to upgrade my pc The HGST Travelstar 7200rpm 13ms 2.5" at 1tb, to replace my old second hand 300GB slower model Hitachi. *Note - Please copy and paste image urls, for some reason the code isn't working.
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