Used HDD won't show up in OS

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toohanrocks

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Hello all,

I recently bought a Zotac premium 240GB SSD to become the new the drive which holds my OS(Windows 10). My old drive was WD Green 1TB HDD and already had Windows 10 installed on it. I had many problems trying to clone it and so I decided to drop that and just do a clean install of Windows 10 on the ssd. I started by removing the HDD from the system and then proceeded with the OS installation on the SSD until I booted up and everything was working fine. This is when I turned it off and connected the old HDD back in, which is unaltered and still has Windows 10 on it as well. When I enter the bios I am able to see that I have both the SSD and the HDD connected, but when I boot up in to Windows 10, I cannot find a trace of the HDD in disk management or file explorer. I have tried rescanninng for disks in disk management but have not had any success. I believe there may be a problem because the old HDD still has an OS on it, but I am not sure so that is why I am here to ask for help. I thank anyone who responds in advance for their time.





*EDIT*: Hopefully someone sees this update because for some reason I can't find anyway to respond other than to answer my own question. I plugged it into different SATA ports and it still does not show up in My Computer of Disk Management. It still shows up in the bios and when I go to device manager I see 2 Standard SATA AHCI Controllers and 1 Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller. I'm not sure which one represents the hard drives, but maybe that information is useful. I will try the program recommendeded and update to see what happens.
 
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Ok anyone who might be reading this I have finally fixed the issue and I believe I know what the problem was. I decided to format the old HDD to see if maybe there was something that was corrupting the HDD. At first I was not able to format the HDD because Windows wouldn't allow it and they said that it would ruin the OS, which was obviously what I was trying to do. To go around this, I plugged in a USB that had the Windows 10 installation media and I ran through the steps until I got to the point where I could see all of the drives and their partitions. From there I was able to format the drive and delete all partitions on the HDD so that it became unallocated storage again. I then exited out of the installation process, set the boot...
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Boogieman_WD

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Hey there, toohanrocks.

Congrats on the new drive and sorry to hear about the issues you're having with your WD Green HDD.
The green drive having an OS should not cause such issues - it should be visible in Disk Management and Device Manager. It sounds like the HDD itself might be having problems. First, because you had problems cloning it and now this.
I'd recommend that you try it with a different computer if possible, to see if the same thing happens. You could either connect it externally or internally. If you don't have that option, at least give it a try with a different SATA port and different cables on yours.
If you don't have data which you wish to recover, you could go ahead and download DLG (Data Lifeguard) and run both tests (Quick and Extended), if the drive is recognized by the tool, to see if anything alarming pops-up. Here's how to do that: How to test a drive for problems using Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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toohanrocks

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Well that's weird, I just took out my ssd and booted from the HDD by itself and a flash drive that I had just plugged in. I was able to boot up into Windows 10 with the old HDD and found that it works and that it shows up in disk management which has three blocks for the HDD. The first block is is called System Reserved, the second is called (C:), and the third is called Recovery Partition. I was thinking maybe the reason it doesn't show up when I have the SSD in is because they are both called (C:) drives. Anyway I hope that helps narrow the problem down in some and thanks for your response.
 
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toohanrocks

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Ok anyone who might be reading this I have finally fixed the issue and I believe I know what the problem was. I decided to format the old HDD to see if maybe there was something that was corrupting the HDD. At first I was not able to format the HDD because Windows wouldn't allow it and they said that it would ruin the OS, which was obviously what I was trying to do. To go around this, I plugged in a USB that had the Windows 10 installation media and I ran through the steps until I got to the point where I could see all of the drives and their partitions. From there I was able to format the drive and delete all partitions on the HDD so that it became unallocated storage again. I then exited out of the installation process, set the boot order back to the SSD as the primary boot drive. Finally, when I entered Windows 10 onto the SSD I went into disk management and the old HDD showed up. I believe that the reason the old HDD did not show up before was because I had Windows 10 pro installed on it while the new SSD had Windows 10 Home on it, so there may have been some sort of issue there. Either way, my stress is gone and I successfully have an SSD for the OS and a HDD for mass storage. Hopefully this will be able to help someone if anyone happens to end up in the same situation that I was in.
 
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