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Can't boot up until i unplug WD Red 4TB

can’t boot up until i unplug WD Red 4TB
i had never have this problem before today. after turning on, my PC halted on a Boot screen. and nothing else, except disk warming.
BIOS update or it’s setting up didn’t helps me. New hdd, huh.
Hope for your help. at least, help me to save the stored data.
motherboard gigabyte ga-z77p-d3(rev. 1.1)
CPU: intel Core i5-3470
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

Hi, you can try connecting the drive using a different SATA cable or SATA port, as well as connecting the drive using a USB to SATA adapter.

thank you, lluna. This method was helpful - i got all my files as is, in safe.
i think that this is problem in an old motherboard (however, it has modern firmware). as an example, problem was not solved when i used an SATA-USB adapter.
even if it was only one HDD in system. should i look at the AHCI technology?
Anyway, it solved.

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