I have a few HDDs in my PC. One contains a lot of RAW photos as I edit them, another the finished files, the OS is on an SSD. Today I started getting real slowdown while editing raw photos in Lightroom, so thought I'd reboot. The 'Windows is shutting down' message stayed for ages A minute or so) so I hit the hard reset button on my PC.
Now the whole harddrive is missing in Windows.
I disconnected it and instead plugged in a little USB SATA adapter I have, and it does work fine as a USB drive. Just not plugged in directly as SATA.
Any ideas what's happened? Or more importantly, how to bring it back? I've tried another SATA port on the MoBo
Two other SATA drives are still functioning fine, and the drive itself clearly functions fine. Very Odd.
I hope I've not lost a lot of important files (Luckily nothing here is really critical - I have many backups of the finished edits, and I never clear any memory cards until the JPGs have been exported from the raws and several backups made!!)
Now the whole harddrive is missing in Windows.
I disconnected it and instead plugged in a little USB SATA adapter I have, and it does work fine as a USB drive. Just not plugged in directly as SATA.
Any ideas what's happened? Or more importantly, how to bring it back? I've tried another SATA port on the MoBo
Two other SATA drives are still functioning fine, and the drive itself clearly functions fine. Very Odd.
I hope I've not lost a lot of important files (Luckily nothing here is really critical - I have many backups of the finished edits, and I never clear any memory cards until the JPGs have been exported from the raws and several backups made!!)
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