HDD shows up in bios but not in windows

[JCooper]

My HDD shows up in the bios but not in windows. If you know how to fix this issue please help! Thanks

[Oshino Shinobu]

Can you open Disk Management in Windows and post a screenshot of it? (Right click Start button > Disk Management)

[JCooper]

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, JCooper said:

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As it's not showing up in Disk Management, I'd bet there's some physical issue somewhere. I would try changing the SATA port and cable you're using to see if it turns up.

[JCooper]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

As it's not showing up in Disk Management, I'd bet there's some physical issue somewhere. I would try changing the SATA port and cable you're using to see if it turns up.

I will do that now

[JCooper]

5 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

As it's not showing up in Disk Management, I'd bet there's some physical issue somewhere. I would try changing the SATA port and cable you're using to see if it turns up.

Tried 3 different ports and 3 different cables, still no luck

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, JCooper said:

Tried 3 different ports and 3 different cables, still no luck

Is this a new HDD or one you've used before? If it's new, it may be faulty. 

 

Do you have another system you could connect it to?

[Daniel Foreman]

In my humble opinion... It's broke. Have you tried kicking it? Kicking stuff always fixes it.

[JCooper]

6 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Is this a new HDD or one you've used before? If it's new, it may be faulty. 

 

Do you have another system you could connect it to?

It is a old drive that has information on it that I need

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, JCooper said:

It is a old drive that has information on it that I need

You could try using a data recovery tool to see if it can pick it up, but given that it's not showing on Disk Management and it's not an issue with cables or ports, I'd say it's probably dead. 

 

[PhiberOptik]

It might be failing to initialize because it's trying to assign itself the C drive letter that's already taken, I would muck about disk part and see where that gets you.
http://www.disk-partition.com/diskpart/assign-drive-letter-4125.html