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I recently upgraded the HDD in my laptop for more storage. The drive was working and I was transferring old files onto it and let it for a couple hours. When I came back to turn it on the drive was no longer shown in windows. I checked the BIOS and the computer shows that the drive is still there but nothing at all is shown in the windows folder or disk management. I am a bit worried that the drive actually broke because it only displayed the name while the other drive showed the name and storage size. But since the BIOS recognizes it could I still save the drive?
 
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Well, there's no process of easing up the drive to handling larger data quantities. Besides they are always tested after production, but sometimes this happens, as it does with all mechanical and electronic devices. A small issue may cause similar problems. So I'd say it had nothing to do with you trying to move 1TB worth of data at once. Hopefully your new HDD has a long and happy life.

Cheers! :)
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Hey there, dRsNiPEs101.

I'm a bit confused whether you're talking about a secondary internal drive or an external one? Does the laptop have more than one HDD, I mean how are you able to boot to Windows if the drive itself is not recognized and it has one HDD? Would you be so kind as to post a couple of screenshot on what you're talking about, it might make things a bit clearer.
Basically if you have no files which you need to recover, you should go ahead and try out the HDD with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens again. You could also download the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics tool to test the drive and see if anything unusual pops-up.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
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dRsNiPEs101

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Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I replaced the internal HDD from a 1TB to a 4TB drive. yes it has multiple drives as it is a gaming laptop. I haven't tried it elsewhere because I don't have another laptop but I'm gonna take it to best buy and have them test it. Another strange thing is that my laptop now takes a minute and a half to boot when it used to be only 5-10 seconds. I'll put a link to some of the pictures I had to take with my phone to try and better show you.

http://imgur.com/a/j2GjJ
 
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I see. It is indeed really odd that it isn't recognized at all by your OS. Perhaps taking it back for a test is the best course of action in this case, if you've got it from there. Otherwise I'd suggest that you go for the reseller you got it from, so that you don't void the drive's warranty.
As for the boot up speed, does the slow boot up happen with the 4TB disconnected from the computer? Sometimes it's possible for a faulty drive to cause problems with other drives as well and everything's OK once the culprit is disconnected. Other than that you might want to check if you have TRIM enabled and leave a bit more free space. You might want to check out the tips from this article: https://www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/. Even if it says Win 7, the suggestions are still viable for the newer versions of Windows as well.

Please keep me posted.
 
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So it ended up being the HDD that was defective. Not sure how it broke after such a short time but then again I've had my PC HDD fail after a two hour car ride during a move but that was a total disk failure. I've sent it back and I'll try again with a new one, hopefully it works and to be safe I'm only gonna put on some basic files and not the whole 1TB from my old drive. Maybe trying to write 1TB of info on a new disk was too much for it? Either way I'll start with a new disk and hopefully it will work now.
 
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Well, there's no process of easing up the drive to handling larger data quantities. Besides they are always tested after production, but sometimes this happens, as it does with all mechanical and electronic devices. A small issue may cause similar problems. So I'd say it had nothing to do with you trying to move 1TB worth of data at once. Hopefully your new HDD has a long and happy life.

Cheers! :)
 
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