How to connect multiple hard drives to my computer

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babakta

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I have a motherboard of ASUS Maximus vii ranger, 2 SSDs each 500GB and 2 HDDs each 1 TB, currently all are connected through my graphic card with a SATA cable with multiple connectors and my disk drive is connected to the motherboard with a single SATA cable. right now the pc shows just 1.5 TB space which is the half of what really is available and OS is on one of the 1TB HDDs. I want to rearrange it in a way that SSD cards become my C partition and have access to all the 3TB storage on my computer. Please help me!
 
FYI, hard drives are not connected through your video card. Unless you are using an m.2 ssd then all your drives are connected with sata cables connected to the motherboard itself. C drive will always be your operating system drive, there is no way around that. You'll either need to clone your OS drive to the drive you want it to be or reinstall windows fresh to the drive you want it to be. A single sata port can only manage one device. You can't daisy chain together sata devices. As said by beers, I highly recommend you take your system to somebody that can do this for you. Doesn't sound like you know what you are doing.
 
Thanks for your advices. This pc was the server of our clinic that was replaced and was completely formatted without any information left and just BIOS on it, so I have not done the arrangement of SATA cables. I am quite sure that a multiple SATA connecting cable is attached to the side of the graphic card and a single SATA cable is directly connected to the motherboard directly. That is the reason I ask you guys how to rearrange the connections. I tried to disconnect all HDDs and left an SSD connected to install OS on it but it was a windows message in the early stage of installation asking to use repair disk although I was trying to install a new Windows by the flash memory created to install Windows. This was exactly what I did first and installed the current OS. My question was if I could move the SATA connected to graphic card and connect it to the motherboard instead.
 
Thumbnail 1 is most likely a pci express addin card that has extra sata ports. Thumbnail 2 is sata port attached to the motherboard. A video card will not have sata ports. Again you will need someone to do this for you.
 
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