my computer stopped reading my second harddrive

bakinbacon

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i recently built a computer and i use an ssd for win7 and my old harddrive for most my storage. everything has been working fine until today. for some reason, my computer isn't able to read my secondary harddrive. the events that led to this were me installing adobe premiere (and the encoder) but before installing, i was able to listen to music that i had stored on my second harddrive. now, i go to my computer and it only shows my ssd.

i don't think it's my mobo considering that it is less than 2 months old. nor do i think it's the sata cables because i've swapped them around.

does anyone here have any experience with this issue? help is really appreciated!
 

bakinbacon

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it doesn't show up in either the BIOS or the disk manager
 

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i feel heat from the drive and i feel some movement.

i have 4 identical drives but only 1 of them is currently connected. i've tried plugging in one of the other drives but the BIOS doesn't seem to detect the other drive either.
 

bakinbacon

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yeah i tried swapping my ssd wires to my hdd but the BIOS only detected my cd drive.

i actually found out that 1 of the 4 drives is being detected. the other 3 (including the one with all my music and other files), remain undetected. i wonder if the harddrive just stopped working out of nowhere.