HDD vanished from the "This PC" list yet appears in Disk Management under "unallocated."
HDD vanished from the "This PC" list yet appears in Disk Management under "unallocated."
Windows lets me set up the disk, I’ve got all my backups ready so I could try that. However, I’m hoping to resolve this differently first. I unplugged both SATA and data cables, but it didn’t help. I also checked for driver updates, and everything functioned normally yesterday. Now I noticed the drive was missing when I attempted to open an app on it (2 screenshots, Disk 2).
It's quite unusual. It seems likely it's damaged. You might want to format the drive, though I'm not certain it will succeed.
CrystalDiskInfo provides details about your hard drive, including capacity, usage, and health information.
It doesn’t recognize the storage device, I attempted to detect additional drives
Consider a different SATA cable and port, perhaps linking it to another device altogether. If it doesn’t improve things, the drive is likely dead.
Treat it as final, so make sure to save all files just in case it gets recognized unexpectedly