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Hey guys this afternoon when I booted up my computer, there was a sluggish performance (speccy indicated that WD Blue was at 50 degress celcius)  it prompted me to 'Restart the computer to repair its drive' so i restarted it. I have an ssd and a seagate 2tb installed already but this WD Blue was just recently installed (a month ago). When windows booted up again it was like : 'repairing K:) drive please wait 0%' 

 

It was stuck at 0% for awhile now hence i restarted the computer to see if it'll speed up the process. To no avail when it booted up, it only detects the ssd and the seagate drive and not the WD Blue. I restarted the computer and went into Bios to check if it has detected the WD Blue and it said it was detected. But after i went back into my computer/ disk management its not there. Is it because I've damaged the drive by restarting it while it was repairing? Any hopes of retrieving the data I've lost?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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re initialize the drive  

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How do you re initiize the drive? Thanks.

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Hey guys this afternoon when I booted up my computer, there was a sluggish performance (speccy indicated that WD Blue was at 50 degress celcius)  it prompted me to 'Restart the computer to repair its drive' so i restarted it. I have an ssd and a seagate 2tb installed already but this WD Blue was just recently installed (a month ago). When windows booted up again it was like : 'repairing K:) drive please wait 0%' 

 

It was stuck at 0% for awhile now hence i restarted the computer to see if it'll speed up the process. To no avail when it booted up, it only detects the ssd and the seagate drive and not the WD Blue. I restarted the computer and went into Bios to check if it has detected the WD Blue and it said it was detected. But after i went back into my computer/ disk management its not there. Is it because I've damaged the drive by restarting it while it was repairing? Any hopes of retrieving the data I've lost?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Hey gaming4z,
 
Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management? Is the drive detected properly in BIOS (with it's correct model and size)?
Here's a small guide on how to initialize a drive: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782513%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
 
If that doesn't work, I would try to connect the drive externally with a docking station or a simple enclosure and run a diagnostic tool on the drive. I would recommend using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=qFb7dc
 
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Thanks for the reply. Can I run the diagnoist tool itself when the drive's installed? I don't have the docking station or simple enclosure so...

I'll do a screenshot of the disk management when I get home from school.

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Thanks for the reply. Can I run the diagnoist tool itself when the drive's installed? I don't have the docking station or simple enclosure so...

I'll do a screenshot of the disk management when I get home from school.

 

The drive needs to be recognized in order to be scanned. It doesn't really matter if it's connected externally or internally. :)

 

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Thing is how can I initialize the drive when it's not even found in the disk management?

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Thing is how can I initialize the drive when it's not even found in the disk management?

Can you see the disk in diskpart

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read here

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/197296/how-to-use-the-diskpart-utility-to-assign-and-remove-drive-letters/

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okay im home and when i reinstalled the hard drive and booted up they was like : scanning and repairing drive (k) at 0%. Should i leave this running? 

yes it will take a while

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yes it will take a while

ok thanks for the reply. any experience on how long it takes for a 1tb wd blue drive? It just moved to 1% ><

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Okay it finally finished repairing. And now it's found in the Disk Mangement. Cheers! But then I was installing the Witcher 3 back into the WD Blue the whole system lagged out and when I checked task manager it was due to WD Blue running at 100% active time. Hence I restarted the computer and plugged out the WD since that was the main reason my computer's lagging.

Any fixes for that now?>< when I ran the WD Diagnose they said all my drives are healthy.

Thanks in advance.

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Okay it finally finished repairing. And now it's found in the Disk Mangement. Cheers! But then I was installing the Witcher 3 back into the WD Blue the whole system lagged out and when I checked task manager it was due to WD Blue running at 100% active time. Hence I restarted the computer and plugged out the WD since that was the main reason my computer's lagging.

Any fixes for that now?>< when I ran the WD Diagnose they said all my drives are healthy.

Thanks in advance.

If the drive diagnostic says the drive is ok, try swapping the sata cable, and put it in a different port on the mobo if you can.

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Try formatting the drive. 

 

If the drive diagnostic says the drive is ok, try swapping the sata cable, and put it in a different port on the mobo if you can.

Okay I'll try BeltBoy's advice. Thanks.

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After that run crystal disk info on it and check health status, could be a bad drive/starting to fail...

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