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?
Do you have a modular power supply? If so are you perhaps trying to power the drive with a cable that came from a different power supply? The pin outs on such cables can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, it might be possible a mismatched cable is causing a short or something and the power supply isn’t turning on to protect itself.
Yes, fully modular, but no, def. not using cables from another manufacturer; I tossed out everything from my old system except the hard drives and the optical drive because it was so old.