[SOLVED] Can a HDD failure cause pc to not boot?

[OverratedRain]

So I have an SSD which is my boot drive and has my OS on it. I then have two HDD one 1TB and a 2TB, one day my pc would spend about 5 mins on the splash screen before eventually booting. Once finally booted I checked all my RAM was recognised which it was and that all my drives were there, but my 2TB drive wasnt being detected.
When I then turned my PC off for the night and tried turning it on the next day it wouldn't get past the splash screen no matter how long I left it. So I tried unplugging the HDD which wasnt being detected and it booted like normal in the time you'd expect and SSD to boot in.
So:
a) does this mean my HDD has a failure?
b) would that failure cause this issue or is there a bigger problem here?

Cheers

System Specs:
Ryzen 7 1700x
Gigabyte B350M
24GB Corsair Vengeance
Gigabyte GTX1070

 

[Abhinav2005]

You should run HDD health test that would tell the problem in HDD if any.
And the HDD showing on BIOS/UEFI?

 

[OverratedRain]

You should run HDD health test that would tell the problem in HDD if any.
And the HDD showing on BIOS/UEFI?

No the HDD doesnt show up under the BIOS, i'll try run a health test cheers.

 

[fzabkar]

It would appear that the HDD may be bogged down with internal error recovery. When this happens, it remains busy. Usually BIOS will timeout and continue without identifying the drive. So the answer is yes, your 2TB drive is bad.

 

[Abhinav2005]

No the HDD doesnt show up under the BIOS, i'll try run a health test cheers.

It is not showing in BIOS/UEFI. Have you tried to connect the SATA cable to any other SATA ports on your motherboard?
If it is still not showing, then you HDD may be corrupt.

 

[Abhinav2005]

It is not showing in BIOS/UEFI. Have you tried to connect the SATA cable to any other SATA ports on your motherboard?
If it is still not showing, then you HDD may be corrupt.

Is your problem solved?