Hi guys, I experienced a power outage and my 2nd internal hard drive stopped working all out of a sudden.
To add to the context, I have 2 drives:
1 Boot drive (working perfectly)
1 HDD Storage drive (having issues)
I've tested swapping mobo/sata port and sata cables between these two and they worked perfectly fine with my boot drive. So it's not a mobo/cable issue.
Issues found:
I suspect that the HDD didn't die from wear and tear, but rather windows is having difficulty reading it/corrupted data. Nor is there any sound or rattling coming from it.
I'm fairly dumb when it comes to tech stuff, hopefully someone has answers here. Thanks in advance.
Edit:
PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
RAM: 16GB DDR4 Ram
GPU: GTX 1080
OS: Windows Version 10.0.19041 Build 19041
MOBO: Asrock B450 Pro4
PSU: Cooler Master Thunder 500W
HDD: Seagate SSHD 2TB
To add to the context, I have 2 drives:
1 Boot drive (working perfectly)
1 HDD Storage drive (having issues)
I've tested swapping mobo/sata port and sata cables between these two and they worked perfectly fine with my boot drive. So it's not a mobo/cable issue.
Issues found:
- HDD not detected in BIOS
- HDD listed as "unknown device" under device management (shortly disappears after a while)
- HDD has an error code of "A DEVICE WHICH DOES NOT EXIST WAS SPECIFIED" when I tried to initialize it on disk management.
I suspect that the HDD didn't die from wear and tear, but rather windows is having difficulty reading it/corrupted data. Nor is there any sound or rattling coming from it.
I'm fairly dumb when it comes to tech stuff, hopefully someone has answers here. Thanks in advance.
Edit:
PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
RAM: 16GB DDR4 Ram
GPU: GTX 1080
OS: Windows Version 10.0.19041 Build 19041
MOBO: Asrock B450 Pro4
PSU: Cooler Master Thunder 500W
HDD: Seagate SSHD 2TB
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