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Change to AHCI after installing SSD won't show my HDD
Hey! Just installed Windows 10 on my newly bought Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Before this I changed the SATA Type from IDE to AHCI in BIOS. Unfortunately after successfully installing Windows I now have the problem that I can't access my HDD anymore!
The HDD (a Western Digital 500GB) is listed in the device manager and the disk management (it also shows up in BIOS when I want to select the hard disk priorities, but not in the IDE section which I guess makes sense?). In Windows Explorer, however, I can't find the drive anywhere. I should add that the disk in the disk management also has an exclamation mark, but does not say why this is so.
After unsuccessfully playing around a bit, I decided to boot from my old HDD (a Western Digital 160 GB) which was installed as an IDE. I therefore changed the bios settings to IDE again, and after logging into windows I had access to my WD 500 GB again. Therefore I strongly suspect that this has to do with changing BIOS from IDE to AHCI. However I thought this wouldn't affect other HDDs connected to the mainboard, only the Disk with Windows installed.
Does anybody know how I can get access (in windows explorer) to my WD 500 GB when booting with AHCI settings in BIOS from my Samsung 850 Pro SSD???