Unable to access the hard drive for startup.
Unable to access the hard drive for startup.
Hi, I understand your situation. You've been using a 1TB SSD as the boot device for a while, and everything was functioning properly. Recently, you replaced it with a 128GB SSD and installed Windows via USB. You managed to switch the boot order in BIOS and both devices worked fine. However, after a week, you're facing issues: the hard drive appears with no capacity and can't be accessed. You're trying to boot into it again but it shows as non-bootable or recovery mode. You mentioned keeping your progress and want to remove the SSD temporarily. Let me know how I can assist further.
It seems like the drive might have stopped working, especially if it's been running for a long time. If it's an older model with many power-on cycles, it could be a sign it's time to replace it.
It seems odd that it ceased functioning right after I completed all the steps. It was flagged as healthy during disk management that day, but now it keeps stating it's healthy and showing partitions.