{"id":971,"date":"2021-12-08T07:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2021-12-08T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:53:54","slug":"sata-drive-not-detected-in-windows-or-disk-management-but-shows-in-bios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/2021\/12\/08\/sata-drive-not-detected-in-windows-or-disk-management-but-shows-in-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"SATA drive not detected in Windows or Disk Management but shows in BIOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I purchased a new SATA drive to replace a lower capacity version. The model I purchased was Kingston A400 Solid State Drive 400GB<\/p>\n<p>To my horror, the disk did not show up in Disk Management (right click Windows logo to access this).<br \/>\nNext I looked at BIOS settings and noticed that it did show up here, so I was confident that the hardware had been detected. Unfortuately my BIOS menu options were written in Chinese and it was very difficult to decipher, however I was able to use Google Lens to translate.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, I came across a video that came came up with a rather unorthodox and quite plainly weird solution. It works as follows.<\/p>\n<p>Run MDSCHED.EXE<\/p>\n<p>This program ostensibly checks for RAM errors. For some reason unknown it solved the issue of my missing drive. Firing up Disk Management, the newly found un-initialized drive was displayed.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps someone else!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-08-18_49_26-Window-300x37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-08-18_49_26-Window-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-08-18_49_26-Window-768x96.png 768w, https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-08-18_49_26-Window.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I purchased a new SATA drive to replace a lower capacity version. The model I purchased was Kingston A400 Solid State Drive 400GB To my horror, the disk did&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}