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Hello, I have been building PCs for 15 years and learning slowly and the hard way.

I have mastered nearly everything EXCEPT installing more than 2 SATA drives with success on ASUS motherboards. The BIOS language is English which is great except I never see an option make the drives appear within Windows 7 (which is what I use.)

My motherboards have 6, 8 and 10 SATA ports at the moment. I get an operating system drive and a data drive recognized but as for all the rest, they are only recognized on boot options in the BIOS.

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They are there and they are functioning drives, brand new and some older data drives with tested functionality, so they are not faulty.

PLEASE help me figure out why with a fresh install of Windows followed by the motherboard drivers, and 5-8 SATA drives installed I only ever get to see 2.

In an ideal situation I boot up and I would like to see Drive C, Drive D, Drive E, Drive F, Drive G, Drive H, Drive I etc...

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2014-10-30 21:13:06
Hello, sometimes that can happen when the drives do not have a letter assigned to it. To check, try the following:-- right click on computer icon-- select manage-- provide password if anyDo the drive/drives show in disk management? Do they have letters assigned to it? Is/are the drives formatted? If the drive/drives are not formatted they would still appear there but as unallocated space, so you would have to format them first.If they don't, you could try assigning a letter:-- right click on a drive-- select change letter and path-- click on add-- select the next available letter and ok-- if that is the issue, explorer should open and show you the new drive