Hard Drive Not Showing Up

[Guest DeWat4]

One of my hard drives is not showing up in Windows. I plugged it into a freshly built PC and it is not showing up at all. I've tried going into Disk Management, and it's not showing up. This hard drive has Windows installed in it (it's the old hard drive from the previous build), and I'm trying to format it so I can use it in another build. How can I get it to show up in Windows? 

[flibberdipper]

If it's not showing up in the BIOS, unplug the data cable from the board and the drive a few times until it comes up. If that doesn't work, try another port on the board.

[star_pilot475]

8 minutes ago, DeWat4 said:

I plugged it into a freshly built PC and it is not showing up at all.

This may sound silly, but you didn’t plug it in while the pc was on did you? 

[Guest DeWat4]

1 minute ago, star_pilot475 said:

This may sound silly, but you didn’t plug it in while the pc was on did you? 

I plugged it in while it was off and turned it on. It didn't work. 

[star_pilot475]

1 minute ago, DeWat4 said:

I plugged it in while it was off and turned it on. It didn't work. 

Ok, have you tried using a different Sata cable?

[Guest DeWat4]

2 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

Ok, have you tried using a different Sata cable?

Yeah, I've tried multiple different cables.

[star_pilot475]

2 minutes ago, DeWat4 said:

Yeah, I've tried multiple different cables.

Ok, Ima hit you with a few things to check
-Is the drive encrypted? 
-Try using a different application (other than file manager) to read the drive (maybe Aomei Partition Assistant or something similar.)
-Plug it into a different sata port on the motherboard itself.

[Guest DeWat4]

3 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

Ok, Ima hit you with a few things to check
-Is the drive encrypted? 
-Try using a different application (other than file manager) to read the drive (maybe Aomei Partition Assistant or something similar.)
-Plug it into a different sata port on the motherboard itself.

-Not that I know of. It was just a hard drive that had Windows on it.
-I tried EaseUS and it did not show up.
- I tried multiple different SATA ports.

[star_pilot475]

3 minutes ago, DeWat4 said:

-Not that I know of. It was just a hard drive that had Windows on it.
-I tried EaseUS and it did not show up.
- I tried multiple different SATA ports.

Ok, good to know...

maybe try this 

https://www.howtogeek.com/268901/why-your-new-hard-drive-isnt-showing-up-in-windows-and-how-to-fix-it/

 

if that doesn’t fix it,