Hard drive won’t work

[dxsmantal]

So today when I started up my computer it booted off my second hdd and my main hdd I couldn’t find and when I check the disk management it said it wasn’t initialized and wouldn’t let me initiate it. How do I fix this is my hdd dead?
https://youtu.be/-udXhwnP1sw
Link to a video of the situation

 

[hang-the-9]

Maybe dead, try another SATA cable, test the drive as a secondary in another system, try it as an external drive.

 

[dxsmantal]

https://twitter.com/simontalksalot/status/1057801972861059074?s=21
Why does it sometimes pop up and sometimes it doesn’t? Like in the picture it’s on my computer and shows I have it and I can click on it and see the programs (can’t click on my user tho says I don’t have permission idk) so I don’t think it’s completely dead...can I like fully reset it to factory settings or do anything?

 

[hang-the-9]

https://twitter.com/simontalksalot/status/1057801972861059074?s=21
Why does it sometimes pop up and sometimes it doesn’t? Like in the picture it’s on my computer and shows I have it and I can click on it and see the programs (can’t click on my user tho says I don’t have permission idk) so I don’t think it’s completely dead...can I like fully reset it to factory settings or do anything?

Well you did not give this info in the original ticket. The reason you don't have access to the user folder is because you are booting of another disk, which means a different account that does not have rights to the user folders on a secondary disk.

Need to get everything out of the way here. You are booting off another disk now, and you want to wipe this disk again to use as a secondary is that right? And this second disk is now seen in the computer or it's not? If it's an intermittent issue, I'd try another SATA cable or port.

 

[dxsmantal]

No I already explained what happened but I guess I’ll do it again. So one day about a week ago I turned my computer on and it booted from my second hard drive instead of my main one which is always booted to. When I go to disk management it says it’s not initialized and I can’t do anything to it and every program I try to use with it like EaseUS, MiniTool, CrystalDisk all don’t work or they load forever and nothing happens. I’ve switched Sata cables and power cables and still doesn’t work. My guess is it got curropted somehow and want to know if there’s a way to fix this or if it’s just done and no going back.

 

[fzabkar]

Is the drive detected in BIOS with its correct model number and capacity?

 

[dxsmantal]

Sometimes it pops up sometimes it doesn’t and when it does and I try to boot from it, it just restarts my pc and goes back to the bios

 

[fzabkar]

@dxsmantal, it sounds like your drive may have a physical problem (bad heads or media).