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I have sata hdd and the bios is not recognising it. The hdd works as I have plugged it into a working pc and it appears. I have formatted in NTFS and run scandisk, no errors. is there any specific settings I need to change for this to work in the bios?

I connected the hdd to gsata and it works. however the dvdrive is not recognised on gsata. i have 2 sata3 ports and 4 sata2 ports.

@aP0

i think i have tried this already. i will try disableing hotplug again tonight. restore defaults disables the hotplug?

also my motherboard is ver1.0. how would i update the bios? i tried downlading the latest bios. extract it to usb. once i was in the bios i tried the qflash and then i don't see any option to select from usb drive.

I have updated the bios to F18i, still no difference. tried AHCI hot plug disabled and IDE, th eonly port that works is gsata0.

I have also tried taking the CMOS battery out. made no difference.

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    BIOS or UEFI and MBR or GPT I would be shocked if your motherboard was actually BIOS based
    – Ramhound
    Oct 11, 2014 at 15:00
  • not sure what you mean. question updated
    – shorif2000
    Oct 11, 2014 at 15:18
  • @Ramhound it is UEFI Dual Bios
    – shorif2000
    Oct 11, 2014 at 15:27

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I hope I understand you correctly. If your "problem" is that your HDD is treated as a hot plug device, like a USB stick, which in Windows shows a icon to remove it safely, than you can either update your BIOS which I would recommend for these boards, to the latest version. I am using a Z77X-UD3H. Gigabytes work on the UEFI wasn't particularly good on this series.

AFAIK the early UEFI versions had this option enabled by default for every SATA Port.

If you do not want to update your UEFI, you can diasble the hot plug option for the SATA ports by going to the "System" Tab and then to "ATA Port Information". There you can disable for every port the hot plug functionality.

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  • i have updated question
    – shorif2000
    Oct 13, 2014 at 9:26
  • Make sure your USB Drive is FAT32 formatted. More information can be found in the manual. If it still won't work you can try installing the update in windows through gigabytes @BIOS Tool. You find it on the Gigabyte Homepage, the Page for your Motherboard in the download section.
    – ap0
    Oct 13, 2014 at 19:05
  • i have updated my question
    – shorif2000
    Oct 14, 2014 at 19:19
  • This is strange. The steps you took fixed the problem for me. Have you installed all needed drivers? Where are your drives pluged in? in the SATA ports used by the intel chip or the ones used by marvel? There is also a way to disable hot swap via the registry: here
    – ap0
    Oct 15, 2014 at 9:18
  • i have tried pluging in the hdd in all the sata ports and gsata ports. only gsata0 works.
    – shorif2000
    Oct 15, 2014 at 11:22

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