[SOLVED] Drives randomly unrecognized ?

[Fuyukazehime]

Every so often, Windows 10 stops recognizing ALL connected drives EXCEPT my boot drive. I use testdisk to recover them but it's annoying. I'm not sure if it's Windows updates causing it or something else. I have run every disk scan and there are no errors on the drives. I have two SSDs and two conventional HDDs and they all stop being recognized at the same time.
It has happened half a dozen times in the last few months and it's ANNOYING. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

 

[rgd1101]

what do you mean you need to use testdisk to recover them?

 

[Fuyukazehime]

Testdisk is an open-source drive utility that can recover partitions.

 

[rgd1101]

I understand that but windows 10 keep erasing your partition? or your hardware issue?

 

[Fuyukazehime]

Windows 10... I've never seen a hardware issue that does this with all drives intermittently like that.

 

[rgd1101]

is windows up to date. I remember some(or 1) updates does mess with storage. but don't remember exactly what it was.

 

[fzabkar]

I have seen this problem numerous times. The common factor seems to be Windows 10 and AMD Ryzen motherboards. I recommend DMDE as a far better (free) tool to recover the partitions. Just a few clicks and you're done.

Gremlin in Win 10 / AMD Ryzen platforms ?
https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40843

https://forums.tomshardware.com/posts/22119317/
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...nallocated-how-to-recover-their-data.3672150/
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...resetting-to-unallocated-please-help.3667696/
https://forums.tomshardware.com/posts/21942720/

 

[Fuyukazehime]

Fking windows amirite? =/