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Can someone please help me

JCooper
By JCooper
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I reinstalled windows and after all of the set up has finished I shut down my pc and plugged my hard drive in (hard drive will information I need on it) and once my pc has booted the drive doesn't show up and it isn't in bios or device manager. The drive spins and is a working drive. Please help!

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FYI "can someone please help me" is a terrible title for a post.

 

We're going to need more information here. Are you talking about an external USB drive. Have you tried it on other PCs?

 

 

Is it an internal SATA drive separate to the drive containing windows? Have you tried reseating the data cable? Is it not showing up in disk manager?

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Just now, theklax said:

FYI "can someone please help me" is a terrible title or a post.

 

We're going to need more information here. Are you talking about an external USB drive. Have you tried it on other PCs?

 

 

Is it an internal SATA drive separate to the drive containing windows? Have you tried reseating the data cable? Is it not showing up in disk manager?

Internal HDD, no I have not tried it with an other pc because I don't have one. The drive worked last night and I could see it but after reinstalling it isn't in disk management or anything. Yes it is a separate drive to the one containing windows. I have used different sata cables and used different ports. The drive spins up and it is working but it just isn't showing up on the bios or in disk management. As I said it has important information on it so I want to get it to work and keep my data.  

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9 minutes ago, theklax said:

FYI "can someone please help me" is a terrible title for a post.

 

We're going to need more information here. Are you talking about an external USB drive. Have you tried it on other PCs?

 

 

Is it an internal SATA drive separate to the drive containing windows? Have you tried reseating the data cable? Is it not showing up in disk manager?

I have used a different sata cable and now I can see it in the bios but still not in the disk manager or anything else

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Just now, PineyCreek said:

Is the SSD drive an NVMe drive, or do you have that option turned on?  You may be using a SATA port that's reserved for use with another feature on your motherboard.

I don't know about NVMe drives or anything? I am using the same port as it was in before I reinstalled windows 

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