HDD not detected whenever first power on (detected at BIOS level)

Posted by Alvin Lim on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Alvin Lim
Published on 2012-12-14T15:06:11Z Indexed on 2012/12/18 11:05 UTC
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I am using

Asus P8H61-M LX Motherboard with latest version of BIOS: 4401
One SATA-3 Western Digital Black Series 1.5TB is attached to SATA port 0
A Samsung 22x DVDRW SATA drive attached to SATA Port 1.
ps/2 Logitech mouse and keyboard.
CPU is i3 with DDR3 8Gb RAM.

no other devices are installed.

My problem is that when I turn on the computer, the WD HDD is not detected. ie cannot be booted. I have to press ctrl+alt+del in order to get it detected.

I'd used the WD data lifeguard software to scan the HDD, the smart status is OK, the surface scan does not show any error at all.

Where did I do wrong? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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