Drives not detected.

[Vicious Sadic]

I have a Dell PowerEdge r730xd

the OS starts but will not detect my drives. 4 - 1TB WD Blue HDDs

What am I doing wrong.

Ive initilized them and put on a base partition and nothing else. Ive tried NTFS and exFAT. Neither work.

[ubergeek]

What HBA / Raid / Perc card 8s in the server

[PsychoWards]

Can you please also post more details on your HDDs? Those might be SMR drives which will likely cause a lot of (performance) issues in the future. 

[DeathBySaiyan]

sorry for the name change. Made new account because i forgot the password to this one. but found it.

The drives are WD10spcx-24hwst0 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCM91WQ?smid=A2LNMCKTCZIL8P&psc=1

I got the system on ebay and it had little info about just a link to this page - https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/servers/technical-support/poweredge-r760-spec-sheet.pdf

[Dylan]

On 12/25/2025 at 8:35 PM, DeathBySaiyan said:

sorry for the name change. Made new account because i forgot the password to this one. but found it.

The drives are WD10spcx-24hwst0 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCM91WQ?smid=A2LNMCKTCZIL8P&psc=1

I got the system on ebay and it had little info about just a link to this page - https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/servers/technical-support/poweredge-r760-spec-sheet.pdf

If the OS doesn't detect the drives, how did you format and partition the drives?

[DeathBySaiyan]

16 hours ago, Dylan said:

If the OS doesn't detect the drives, how did you format and partition the drives?

I did multiple ways

First I put the drive straight out the package unformatted and no detection. 

Then I formatted them MBR NTFS, Then MBR exFAT, then GPT exFAT, then GPT NTFS...All with the same result.

RAID controller in the system says its PERC H730P Mini

While writing this I was troubleshooting and realized I needed GPT initialized - unallocated drives then needed to go thru the onboard system to setup the raid system. As soon as i did that and reinstalled the OS everything worked. Hopefully I can just add drives in the future without all the hassle. 

Thatnks for the replies 😊

[Dylan]

6 hours ago, DeathBySaiyan said:

I did multiple ways

First I put the drive straight out the package unformatted and no detection. 

Then I formatted them MBR NTFS, Then MBR exFAT, then GPT exFAT, then GPT NTFS...All with the same result.

RAID controller in the system says its PERC H730P Mini

While writing this I was troubleshooting and realized I needed GPT initialized - unallocated drives then needed to go thru the onboard system to setup the raid system. As soon as i did that and reinstalled the OS everything worked. Hopefully I can just add drives in the future without all the hassle. 

Thatnks for the replies 😊

Glad you got it sorted!