Hard drive not recognized in windows

pcfan1

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Jul 2, 2012
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Hi, i've been a few issues with my laptop lately which forced me to re-install completly wndows. I installed Windows on my 1TB drive to backup the data from my SSD and then i installed Windows on my SSD. I made sure to install Windows 8 on my SSD with my 1TB HDD not plugged into my laptop. After the installation process done, i plugged my 1TB drive into a USB SATA docking station to format my 1TB drive and then i re-plugged my HDD into my laptop to see that Windows did not recognze it. To make sure i booted again and went into the BIOS to find that in the BIOS, my HDD was indeed reconized. The disk is not listed in DISKPART / Disk Management ... i'm really clueless atm, could it be because i created a new volume on my HDD while it was plugged in my docking station?