Sorry I’m asking this without specs at hand; I’m away from my desktop at the moment.
I built a PC a few months back, and went through this long, irritating ordeal of installing Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC (a driver wasn’t working for the video card; eventually the driver got updated, and now it’s great; otherwise, MASGrave is fantastic). I have a 2Tb PCI-e drive. But. Any time I try to install an old 3.5" 7200rpm SATA drive, it won’t even start. As in, nothing at all happens when I push the power button; it won’t even get to BiOS, so I’m pretty sure that it’s not an issue with trying to boot from a volume with no operating system.
The same hard drives work when I used them in a powered USB enclosure. They’re slow, because it’s over USB, but they work.
I think my power supply is 800W. My gut feeling is that my power supply is insufficient for the added power draw of a traditional hard drive. Does this sound correct?
Yeah, I’ve got the startup lights, and they’re visible through the case, but it’s not even doing that. It’s dead-dead; pushing the power button does absolutely nothing at all until I unplug the drive. I had issues with the first PCI-e drive (I returned it under warranty), and it would fail before BiOS, but I was getting a red light on the board. This is just… Nothing at all.
Did you already pinpoint if the issue is with all HDDs or just one? Like, connect one and try, disconnect, try the next? From your OP it seems like it’s just one HDD causing the issue.
If that’s the case, maybe boot into Windows and, after booting, put the broken HDD into one of your USB enclosures. Then run chkdsk on it. Maybe try CrystalDiskInfo too.
If your pc straight up shuts down the moment you connect the drive, chuck it before you do any more damage to your system.
I’ve tried each HD individually, and the system fails to turn on–not just fails to boot, but doesn’t even power up/turn on–with every single one.
I’ll try to remember to run chkdsk on them all this evening.