How can I add a second hard drive to a previously configured UEFI/ACHI Windows 8 machine?

Question

Recently purchased a new Windows 8 PC.

It came with one hard drive.

I want to a second hard drive to it. This second hard drive is my data hard drive from my previous computer.

However, I have run into issues when the system accesses it.

The drive is found in the BIOS. But is not seen by Explorer or Disk Management.

I have added the drive to the next available SATA slot: SATA 2.

The machine is a UEFI/ACHI based machine.

In my reading I have found people documenting the following:

1) adding multiple partitioned hard drives (like mine is) to UEFI based machines is not possible 2) I have seen it suggested that you can only add blank hard drives to UEFI based machines. However, in doing so, I did not have success. I tried to add it as a hard drive with unallocated space and then as a hard drive with a single simple partition. Both attempts failed.

My ultimate question:

What is the proper procedure for adding a second hard drive to a UEFI/ACHI machine?

I do not want to reinstall the OS and start from scratch as I have seen suggested elsewhere. There has to be a way to accomplish this without all that hassle.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Solution

Windows 8, when installed using the UEFI configuration, will not boot with another drive connected to the system that has an Extended/Logical partition.

This even includes external drives

Credit goes to http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-rtm-support/13384-windows-8-wont-allow-me-add-second-hard-drive-new-post.html

Comments

[pflyer]

it is a SATA drive and does not have jumpers. I will have to double check Device Manager.

[Ramhound]

What exactly is ODD This answer needs to be cleaned up.