It has been awhile since I posted this problem but I repaired it.
the problem was a bad SATA plug on my mother board. I must have looked at the bios setting 2 dozen times when I finally realized on of my hard drives ( i have 3) was not listed. I disconnected the plug and everything worked which lead me to believe the drive was bad but i plugged it into another SATA plug and everything worked. thank you for your suggestions
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