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So my computer had a blue screen and upon restart Im unable to see my HDD partitions in My Computer, BIOS, Disk Management and Device Manager.

After the BSoD my computer stalled on restart and then attempted to repair itself. It gave an error saying it wasnt able to do so but now boots normally without issue.

My Boot / OS is on a separate SSD drive and storage is all on my HDD drives so I am still able to boot the computer normally even though I cant see any HDD.

Ive restarted my computer a bunch of times to try and find it in the BIOS etc and had an instance where I saw what I assumed to be my HDD in disk manager but when I tried to initialise it I kept getting a dont have access/permission error.

No idea what would be causing it? Id like to think that my HDD didnt just die out of nowhere. Any ideas / thoughts on how to get my computer to recognise it again would be helpful.
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there, Joel.

If the drive is not recognized by the BIOS, you won't have any luck finding it anywhere in Windows. However, you did mention that at some point it popped up in Disk Management and you've tried to initialize it, which means that it might be detected by an HDD diagnostic tool. That's why I'd recommend that you download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic tool and test it, if you don't need to recover data from it.
Other than that you could give it a try with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens, or at least try it out with a different SATA port and cables on yours.

edit: Oh well, looks like I've been beaten to the answer. :)

Please let me know how everything goes.
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Hey there, Joel.

If the drive is not recognized by the BIOS, you won't have any luck finding it anywhere in Windows. However, you did mention that at some point it popped up in Disk Management and you've tried to initialize it, which means that it might be detected by an HDD diagnostic tool. That's why I'd recommend that you download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic tool and test it, if you don't need to recover data from it.
Other than that you could give it a try with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens, or at least try it out with a different SATA port and cables on yours.

edit: Oh well, looks like I've been beaten to the answer. :)

Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Great job. Now backup your data while you have access to it, just to be on the safe side. When this is done, go ahead and follow my advice to test the drive with its manufacturer's diagnostic tool. This way you should be able to determine if a problem with the drive caused those issues or if it was something else.
 
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