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The Black Connector is SATA 1 With the ORANGE DVD cable The BLUE connector SATA 0 must be the boot hard drive. MacOS or Windows 10 formatted drives will not be detected booting from windows 7.ĭrives with rootkit malware will not mount. How come do I have 4 SATA ports on the motherboard, an Intel H61 Express chipset which perfectly handles 4 SATA ports, and only 2 available in bios ? In the bios, there are controls on only 2 SATA ports (SATA-0 and SATA-1, where are SATA-2 and SATA-3 ?) like in this pic : In other words : whatever the configuration is, the bios only sees 2 SATA peripherals. But once I try to connect a third peripheral on the SATA interface, it doesn't detect anything. Then I tried to add the SSD, still works well. I tested the HDD alone by disconnecting the SSD and optical drive and it works well.

The result is : no matter what I do, the computer only sees 2 SATA peripherals, never 3 nor 4. As there are 4 SATA ports on the motherboard, I plug the new HDD to the third SATA port, and boot up the computer. I would like to add a HDD in it and the first two SATA ports are already populated with a SSD and optical drive.