disappearing hard drive please helppp

[66nova]

so i decided to reset my pc yesturday and i took out my one hard drive that had windows on it put in my other ssd installed windows onto the new one put all my things on the new one then i put the old ssd in that i also had windows on and i formatted it and now it just disappears off my computer is i restart my computer it will be there but as soon as i try and do anything with it it just disappears its not in my disk manager its not anywhere its like it doesnt see it at all but if i restart my pc its there again someone pleaseee help me

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, 66nova.

What kind of format did you use for the old SSD? You are never supposed to run Full Format on an SSD as this might dramatically shorten its life. Other than that, I'd suggest that you try the problematic drive with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens. You should also check if there's a firmware update available and if there is one - just go ahead and install it, to see if that fixes things up.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD

 

[66nova]

Hey there, 66nova.

What kind of format did you use for the old SSD? You are never supposed to run Full Format on an SSD as this might dramatically shorten the its life. Other than that, I'd suggest that you try the problematic drive with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens. You should also check if there's a firmware update available and if there is one - just go ahead and install it, to see if that fixes things up.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD

so believe it or not this may be the one of the weirdest things you have heard today but ummm i think i fixed it not sure im deciding between 2 things i have thermaltake snow edition level 10 gt case and the hard drives run off of 1 power cord and how ever many sata cable and every time i would boot it would only load 1 drive and it wasnt my windows drive so i figured i would take my drives out and plug them into there own power cables and its working fine now not its disappearing anymore is it possible its the case or maybe the psu

 

[Boogieman_WD]

The case should have nothing to do with that and I doubt it's a PSU issue. If everything's working fine now, after you've connected all the drives with a separate power cable, it sounds more like it was a cable related problem.