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Dual HDD incompatibility in laptop
Hi all, new here, so I'll jump straight in with the problem(s) at hand. The two identical HDD's that were in my laptop were getting smart read errors and were beginning to fail, so I removed the one that had my OS on it as that was the more problematic one. Well, it turns out that I had a spare one on hand - but is a different brand and is at half the capacity of the other two. So after checking the BIOS if there were any compatibility issues (there weren't), I went right ahead and setup Windows.
But here's the thing: After setting everything up, Windows is not picking up the secondary HDD but is being recognized as a Peripheral under Device Manager, Msinfo32 etc but is not being picked up as a storage device under Computer Management or My Computer. And there are no jumper switches on the HDD's nor are there any options in the BIOS to set one up as a slave/secondary HDD, only in which order they boot.
Also, under HD Tune the temperature threshold for the one with my OS on it (this is the good one) is rated at 40c and is reading out at 60c. Faulty sensor?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.