Cant find sata Hdd

worligig said:

Hi i have just built a new computer which is up and running fine,(hdd op system)
but now i want to add a sata hdd from my old pc, that held all my music and photo's (no working programs)
I connected it up and it doesn't show anywhere i have gone into disk management refreshed and rescanned but to no avail am i missing something or does any one know of an easy fix? I wouldn't want to loose all these files

did you restart windows with it connected? is it receiving power?

worligig said:

yes and yes but it doesn't show up in my bios

set the sata input as an external sata drive in bios. also try a different sata cable.