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I have an Asus G73JW laptop, which has two hard drive slots. In the first slot, I have a HDD containing Windows 7. In the second slot, I just inserted an SSD (OCZ Vertex 4) with linux formatting that I took out of another computer.

Now, when looking in the partition manager of Windows, the hard drive was not recognized. And I don't just mean that no drive letter was assigned, the partition manager doesn't see the presence of a disk at all. Installing Ext2Fsd did not resolve this problem.

The BIOS sees the SSD. If I boot my computer with a linux Live USB stick (e.g. Tails), then the SSD is functioning flawlessly and I can access all my data on there. So the hardware is all working fine, hence it must be a problem with Windows.

How can I resolve this problem, and make Windows recognize the disk?

Edit: never mind, I was mistaken, the BIOS doesn't recognize the disk. Outdated BIOS. Topic closed.

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  • Could it be a MBR format like GPT that's confusing windows?
    – Xen2050
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 8:56
  • msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/… Should not be a problem according to the windows help pages...
    – user1111929
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 9:04
  • I didn't think it would be, but can't think of anything else... Bug in your windows software? Any other disk formatting/partitioning software for windows that might work?
    – Xen2050
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 9:10
  • what do you mean by linux formatting ? ext3/2 ?
    – malakrsnaslava
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 9:41
  • In your question you said multiple times that the SSD is recognized and working without issue. Is your HDD being seen by anything or was this a typo in the question (meant HDD instead of SSD?), please clarify what's happening with the HDD more-so than the SSD, in your question. On the off chance of typos, have you tried removing the SSD and booting with just the HDD in the system as it was before?
    – Andrew
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 11:01

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