The American Megatrends BIOS (latest version as of manufacturer) of a Shuttle XPC SH87R6 hangs at the very beginning (not even showing the CPU type) whenever a WD 3.0TB SATA harddisk is attached. It's still responsive because I get the message to enter setup after hitting del, however I does never enter setup.
What I tried so far:
- different cable
- different SATA slot on mainboard
- changing mode from SATA to IDE or RAID in BIOS
- disabled fast boot in BIOS
Enabling SATA hotplug in BIOS and using a live usb stick with gparted on it and attaching the disk before booting (waiting at GRUB) correctly detects the disk later and I can access it without issues. So the disk itself is fine, it also works in another computer.
Could it be related to the way the disk is partitioned / formatted? I can post that information later, but it roughly is a Windows drive with a system partition, a first partition for the OS, then some free unused space and another larger NTFS partition. At the moment I can't recreate the partition table as I need the data on it, but I will try that.