Resolved Hard drive System Reserved.

Newly built a new PC. Intel Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PV mobo. Intel Core i5-4430. Win 7 Professional, 8 GB memory, 2 SATA hard drives. SATA dock on case.
Only one HD accessible, Disk Management shows OS on Drive 1 and drive 2 has a small section labelled System Reserved, This disk is not accessible.
Is it likely the HDs are connected to the wrong SATA sockets on the mobo? If not, what?

How do I setup a hard drive on the external dock?

Presently using an external USB drive which sometimes is not recognised, disconnecting and re-connecting usually fixes this. Is the a proper fix?

 

Does Harddrive 2 show any unallocated space?


Found this on the web...

Why did Windows 7 make the 100MB "System Reserved" partition on my second hard drive instead of the hard drive windows was being installed on?

From what I've read, Disk 0 occupies the number one position on a system regardless whether the OS is installed on it or not. If that is the case with you, then maybe that's the reason Windows allotted System Reserved space on the non-operating system drive.

 

Your 2nd Disc (Hard Drive) won't be accessible unless it has an Operating System installed.
Right click My Computer > Manage > Disc Management > and it should show both Hard drives (Alpha ID) and what is allocated to each.
I have 3 Sata HD's (W8.1 W7 Pro and Vista Bus) and doing the above, it shows how much space is taken up with the OS, the cache and vacant drive space.
If you have an empty Hard drive installed - it will show the total drive space of the HD. ie. 250GB's. Neil.

 

Go into BIOS and you should be able to see Boot Order and which Sata each is connected to. Neil.