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Zupyn ✟ 16 hours ago

Did my HardDrive just vanished ?

I had a problem with my PC and had to remove parts to figure out what the problem was, one by one. I solved my problem, it was the RAM. I replaced one stick. But when I turned it on for the first time, I only had 1 HD, my system's. Worked well. Then I turned it off and connected my game HD, but it stayed like this ( https://imgur.com/a/cCnpQqZ ).
My secondary HD that I use for my games can no longer be accessed, I can't enter it, nor verify its status in "Properties" and the free space meter doesn't appear.
I already used Wmic diskdrive get start, everything was ok on both HDs. I already used sfc scannow and even DISM restorehealth. Everything was done. So far nothing.
In Disk Management, this HD appears as RAW, as if there was some error, its maximum size appears, but the files that were inside are disregarded....Has anyone dealt with this before?

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 16 hours ago

There small chance you may have not fully seated the sata cable, or need to unplug, and replug it again.

It might have became corrupted (RAW), if nothing important on it you can format it, and should work again, if you do have something important things on it, you have to try recovery tools like TestDisk, EaseUS, or R-Studio.

emoticorpse 15 hours ago

Sounds like a problem I ran into in my many experiences of drives getting screwed up, but it would have been long ago and I can't remember it in detail.

Looks like partition table or something got messed up. My first advice would be to try to use software from the developer whether it's Seagate Tools or whatever WD offers to see if it can scan/fix the drive.

If that does nothing, try another 3rd party program that can mess with/recover partition headers without needing to do a full recovery of the data.

I doubt the drive just coincidentally started going bad just as you did this operation.

_I_ 15 hours ago

first check bios to see if the drive shows up there

if not, then re-seat power/sata cables
or try a different sata cable, they can go bad if flexed too far or too much

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Zupyn ✟ 12 hours ago

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
There small chance you may have not fully seated the sata cable, or need to unplug, and replug it again.

It might have became corrupted (RAW), if nothing important on it you can format it, and should work again, if you do have something important things on it, you have to try recovery tools like TestDisk, EaseUS, or R-Studio.

i already did that. But thanks for the tip

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