hdd not showing up

[darkangelire66]

so today I got up turned on my computer & it was freezing so i restarted which took 5 minutes. then saw that my second  hdd was not showing up in file explorer, thinking to myself it's dead. i checked disk management & it's there but I see an error the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error. I

[Spotty]

Most likely dead or dying. Has it been making any abnormal noises recently?

What model drive is it? Is it still under warranty?

 

Try seeing if crystal disk info can detect the drive and if it reports and smart errors.

Try running chkdsk -f on the drive.

 

If you are able to access the drive at restarting or such, I'd recommend copying any important data off the drive and backing it up to a different drive.

 

[darkangelire66]

had it since 2010 so the warranty period has long since expired. health status says caution

[Spotty]

2 minutes ago, darkangelire66 said:

had it since 2010 so the warranty period has long since expired. health status says caution

Yep, it's dying/dead.

Time to replace it.