HDD shenanigans, please help

So after wrestling with trying to get windows 7 to recognize my 320GB HDD as well as my 120SSD, I finally went to install a fresh copy of windows. Alas I had forgotten I only had an upgrade, so I went searching for my old Vista disc. I formatted both drives, took the HDD out, installed vista on the SSD and upgraded it to 7, then put the HDD back in and fired her up. No boot.mgr. Now BIOS isn't even showing my SSD. I had successfully booted into windows while the SSD was alone, now I can't even SEE it? Please help, I'm at the end of my rope.

Windows 7 home premium upgrade (64 bit)

Windows Vista home premium 64bit ASUS OEM disc

120GB Vertex 2 SSD

320GB Scorpio WD HDD

Have you checked the boot order in your bios to make sure your ssd is listed?The hdd maybe be listed on there instead of the ssd. Other than that I have no clue. Good luck though.

UPDATE: If I swapped the drives around in their slots, BIOS can see both, but disk manager still can't. Better or worse? (sorry for doublepost)Roggirek

It'll be in the bios, under SATA configuration. It may not make any difference for your current issue, but it's something else to check off. Also, do you have the latest firmware for the ssd? How bout the latest windows drivers? Now that you can see it in the bios, it leads me to believe it may be a windows issue. I'm still relatively new to ssds myself, it'd be nice if someone with a little better knowledge could chime in.

[QUOTE="Roggirek"]UPDATE: If I swapped the drives around in their slots, BIOS can see both, but disk manager still can't. Better or worse? (sorry for doublepost)jpm27

this should fix ur issue. it did for me! had a IDE HD dvd rom that would not detect in windows, fiddled around with AHCI mode and BAM it was fixed. though dont be surprised if u blue screen after playing with AHCI modes

I went in and looked around in BIOS. I made sure the SSD was the primary drive, and couldn't find anything about AHCI mode. There WAS something (IDE mode?) that was set to enhanced. I tried to set it to compatible, but all I got was a BSOD, so I immediately changed it back. Booting back in, windows launched startup repair which was promising, but to no avail. Roggirek

yeah that kinda needs to be changed to AHCI to get the most out of it.....maybe even reinstall.

[QUOTE="Roggirek"]I went in and looked around in BIOS. I made sure the SSD was the primary drive, and couldn't find anything about AHCI mode. There WAS something (IDE mode?) that was set to enhanced. I tried to set it to compatible, but all I got was a BSOD, so I immediately changed it back. Booting back in, windows launched startup repair which was promising, but to no avail. kungfool69

yeah that kinda needs to be changed to AHCI to get the most out of it.....maybe even reinstall.

reinstall of windows unfortunately :(

if changing to ACHi causes blue scree, u wil have to boot from DVD and reinstall windows ( or try a complicated registry tweak, look it up)