HDD not showing in Windows

[flibberdipper]

Kay, so I went to make a VM for Windows 10 with VMWare Workstation and it didn't launch. So being a normal person, I restarted and BAM it worked. But, it couldn't write to the D: drive, which has mysteriously gone missing from Windows. It spins up as per usual, and it comes up in the BIOS, but Windows doesn't seem to be aware of its existence whatsoever. So what the actual fuck gives? I have HUNDREDS of gigs of games on it with THOUSANDS of hours of play time total, and I really don't want to lose it and pretty much be out of a drive, since I don't have the money to replace it.

 

And before you say "well maybe its ded huh lel," it isn't. Everything seems to be picking it up other than Windows.

[EarthboundHero]

Have you checked Windows drive manager? 

[AMICLG]

Go into diskmgmt.msc and see if it shows up there. If it does; try assigning a drive letter.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Tried switching which SATA ports it's on? Got another PC to test it in? 

[NeoFrux]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

 

Gee... I dunno... Last time I checked I don't just look at explorer because I'm not an idiot...

Hey now, no need to be rude about it. If you know troubleshooting, you know you start with the basics. Doesn't matter who you are or what you know.

Anyway, the drive gets picked up by other OSes, then? What OSes / utilities have you tried? Are there any devices in Device Manager in an error state, like a SATA controller? And just to make it clear, the drive itself isn't showing up in Device Manager at all, correct? How's the System log in eventvwr.msc look? Any errors or disk-related warnings?

[TrifectaIII]

24 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

 

Gee... I dunno... Last time I checked I don't just look at explorer because I'm not an idiot...

If we automatically assumed that anybody posting here had done even the most basic of troubleshooting steps, 90% of the threads that are eventually answered would never get resolved.

[flibberdipper]

26 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Tried switching which SATA ports it's on? Got another PC to test it in? 

It's not the ports. And now, by the force of magic, that drive is back... At the expense of my freaking scratch disk, which was working fine.

 

23 minutes ago, Runefox said:

Hey now, no need to be rude about it. If you know troubleshooting, you know you start with the basics. Doesn't matter who you are or what you know.

Anyway, the drive gets picked up by other OSes, then? What OSes / utilities have you tried? Are there any devices in Device Manager in an error state, like a SATA controller? And just to make it clear, the drive itself isn't showing up in Device Manager at all, correct? How's the System log in eventvwr.msc look? Any errors or disk-related warnings?

I'll be as rude as I damn well please, kay?

 

Besides the BIOS, I've tried just about every Ubuntu distro under the sun, as well as Fedora. And there are literally no errors in anything anywhere.