Disk showing up as "Not Initialised"

[HP24]

I built my desktop 4/5 years ago and I've had a 1TB Seagate 7200rpm hard drive as my bulk storage for games and such for that entire time. last night I went to launch a game stored on that drive and it said the game wasn't found, I restarted the computer and the drive now shows up with just the letter it was assigned 'D' with a big blue question mark over it in file explorer (I'm on windows), my boot drive and my other bulk storage drive show up and I swapped the cables with the two bulk storage drives and It still didn't work, could someone advise me on what the best course of action would be to get this to work again.

thankyou. 

[Windows7ge]

When the computer is powered on can you tell if the drive is spinning up? It's usually easy to tell by listening or touching the drive when power is applied.

[HP24]

9 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

When the computer is powered on can you tell if the drive is spinning up? It's usually easy to tell by listening or touching the drive when power is applied.

I belive so, its hard to tell because it has a metal shroud on the device and is near the psu so its hard to tell if the vibrations/sound id the drive or the fan

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, harryp2404 said:

I belive so, its hard to tell because it has a metal shroud on the device and is near the psu so its hard to tell if the vibrations/sound id the drive or the fan

Things I would be worried about first are if it's spinning, then weather or not you can hear/feel the read head clicking back and forth.

 

I'm not familiar with a drive failing with the picture you described but it's not normal either. Do you have another computer available? What happens if you plug the drive into that?

[HP24]

23 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

Things I would be worried about first are if it's spinning, then weather or not you can hear/feel the read head clicking back and forth.

 

I'm not familiar with a drive failing with the picture you described but it's not normal either. Do you have another computer available? What happens if you plug the drive into that?

No, I have very limited troubleshooting tecniques available to me which is why I posted here, I was just wondering if there is a know issue with these drives or smthn. 

It's detecting the drive, as in it shows up in windows and I can see the name and icon for the drive in file explorer but when I click on it nothing happens, in the format menu it says that the drive is not initialised but when I try to format it is says it is not found. 

[Windows7ge]

48 minutes ago, harryp2404 said:

No, I have very limited troubleshooting tecniques available to me which is why I posted here, I was just wondering if there is a know issue with these drives or smthn. 

It's detecting the drive, as in it shows up in windows and I can see the name and icon for the drive in file explorer but when I click on it nothing happens, in the format menu it says that the drive is not initialised but when I try to format it is says it is not found. 

Unfortunately this is when a second computer would make testing easier IMO. If a second computer gives you the exact same result I'm afraid you likely have a failed drive. It's possible it's a software failure that can be recovered by re-formatting but if it's a hardware failure such as bad sectors or something on the HDD's circuit board then it's a non-recoverable HDD and would have to be sent for RMA or another one purchased if RMA isn't an option.

 

The one other thing I can suggest would be to download CrystalDiskInfo and upload a screenshot of the drives health status. This would (or should) display the drives S.M.A.R.T. data and show if the drive knows somethings wrong with it. Although it's possible if the drive is really messed up that it won't pull up any data at all.

[TomChaai]

Hard drives are basically impossible to repair, especially if your tried to turn it on after it broke. Just get a new one if the old one is known broken.

Since you mentioned Seagate 7200 1TB, those are very likely known garbage model, we have a lot of those in the office and they just kept breaking.