Question Laptop can't see original Hard Drive??

[Olly Herbert]

Hello Everyone thanks for visiting my forum thread.

I've been having problems with my original hard drive on my high end ASUS gaming laptop.
Recently I've been using my computer and have filled up my SSD and how all my storage went away so fast, so I went into the settings and saw that my SSD was full with only a few gigabytes left. But there was no sign of the hard drive, so I decided to dig deeper and look in the disk manager to find it sitting there 100% empty and with its own healthy partition drive next to it. I've tried everything that I could think of and had no success. (This laptop hasn't had any other internal issues or work done on it and the hard drive that is installed is the original one.)
Thank you very much for reading and your help is much appreciated if possible, If not thanks for reading.

Cheers Olly Herbert

 

[gamerproject1998]

Ok so the computer is detecting the SSD so that's good. Why it can't access the SSD I'm not sure. See if it is a bad drive by putting in another, it happens much more often than you think.

 

[Olly Herbert]

Thanks for the reply, I did think of that but don't have a hard drive and are a bit hesitant to do so.
Are there any other ways that I could do it?

Cheers Olly Herbert