Failed to detect hard drive at the first boot

My new system always failed to detect the hard drive at the first boot, but it's ok if restart it. Not use Raid (disabled). Any help will be greatly appreciated.  ?(
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Originally posted by Yingsheng
My new system always failed to detect the hard drive at the first boot, but it's ok if restart it. Not use Raid (disabled). Any help will be greatly appreciated
That is another classic symptom of a WD hard drive being jumpered as either a master or a slave when there is no other drive on the cable with it.  If the drive is the only drive on the cable, then remove the jumper from the drive.

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