Question Windows 11 isn’t recognizing hard drive

[TJTindall]

I have used this 1tb HDD before but it seems to have stopped showing up on file explorer on the drives page. I have downloaded steam games to it and I tried yesterday but it didn’t show up. It shows up in bios but I have tried many things but I can’t get it to show up. Any solutions?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Any solutions?
Open up Disk Management and see if it requires you to initialize the drive. On a side note, how old is the HDD in question?

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

 

[TJTindall]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Any solutions?
Open up Disk Management and see if it requires you to initialize the drive. On a side note, how old is the HDD in question?

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Any solutions?
Open up Disk Management and see if it requires you to initialize the drive. On a side note, how old is the HDD in question?

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

The HDD doesn’t show up in disk management I will list my parts below
AMD ryzen 7 5700x
Thermalright peerless assassin 120
Asus prime b450m a-ii
16 gb ddr4 Corsair vengeance
I have a WD500 sata ssd and a 1tb Samsung 990 evo plus
Asrock Radeon 7600xt
Coolermaster 700w silent pro(really old like 10 years)
Zalman i3
Windows 11
Sceptre 240 hz 1080p 25”
The bios version on the motherboard is 4202

 

[astyr]

Is it a SATA HDD? What cables are you using to connect the HDD?

You could download HDD Sentinel and see if it can detect the drive and the health of the drive.

 

[TJTindall]

Is it a SATA HDD? What cables are you using to connect the HDD?

You could download HDD Sentinel and see if it can detect the drive and the health of the drive.

Yes it is a SATA HDD and I downloaded the HDD sentinel and it is showing up and is 100% health and not overheating.

 

[astyr]

Are you using SATA cables to connect the HDD?

Things you can check:

Check in the BIOS to see if there is anything wrong with the Disk settings.

Check Device Manager and see if it's disabled

Check if it shows up with diskpart in cmd

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes it is a SATA HDD and I downloaded the HDD sentinel and it is showing up and is 100% health and not overheating.

Please show screenshots:

Disk Management,​

HDD sentinel,​

Device Manager - disk drives and storage controllers expanded,​

Windows Storage Spaces (Control Panel/Storage Spaces)​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[TJTindall]

Please show screenshots:

Disk Management,​

HDD sentinel,​

Device Manager - disk drives and storage controllers expanded,​

Windows Storage Spaces (Control Panel/Storage Spaces)​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

I fixed it I'm about to make a post with my solution