SDD & HHD are recognized by bios but not by Windows

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ElikBelik77

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I know this title seems familiar with other topics but I couldn't find a thread that suits my problem.

I have 2 ssd on my pc, one for OS and the other one is just for storage.
I have another one hhd which is for storage aswell.

I built my pc, created the partitions and initialized the drive and everything was working and windows recognized all 3 of the drives. Now it's one year later, and only my OS ssd is being recognized by Windows, and the other ssd and hhd are not recognized by windows but are recognized by bios.

Here is a link to screen shot of the disk management :
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As you can see there are 2 drives without a volume and I don't know if that have anything to do with my 2 "missing" drives.

I appreciate your time.

 
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There is no generic 'fix', because technically this can't happen.
If the BIOS sees it, then Device Manager and Disk Management should also see it.

So its all working now?
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Those 2 "drives" (actually partitions" are supposed to be there, and have no drive letter.
Leave those alone

Your other 2 drives...Are they seen in the BIOS?
Possibly bad or disconnected cables?

How many physical drives are there? What make/model are these?
 
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Actually those two drives without a volume look like partitions in your OS SSD. It would make sense for them not to have a letter because they were made by the Windows 10 installation.

As for your drives not being read, have you tried using a third party partition\drive program like Aomei Partition Assistant to see if it can see your missing drives?
 
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The OS ssd, the storage ssd & hhd can be seen in my bios and there are 3 physical drives.
OS ssd is kingston v300 128gb
Storage ssd is samsung EVO 840 500gb
and storage hhd is a normal seagate 1tb drive.
 
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Aomei Partition Assistant recognizes only my OS ssd.
 
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Seen in the BIOS, but not in Disk Management....hmmmm.

What was the last thing you did before this happened?
Rebooted the system since then?
 
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Can you post photo of BIOS screen, where all drives are being detected?
Edit: And screenshot from Device Manager also. Any disabled devices there? or with yellow exclamation marks?
 
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I'll try answering as many questions as I can,

To USAfret, I haven't done anything special, I shut down the my PC last night and turned it on today I spotted the problem when I tried to run a shortcut of a program that was stored on my ssd and an error messege popped up.

To SkyNetRising, Picture of drives in BIOS

The motherboard is Asus maximus VIII hero, and I don't know which sata ports are connected.

As I was writing this solution the drives magically appeared in the file explorer with all the data in them, but I wonder what can be a fix for the problem if anyone ever gets this problem aswell ?

Thanks everyone for their time, I appreciate it alot. :)
 
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Yes it is, I thought it may has something to do with corrupted windows file or something like that. Anyways I'll mark your answer as the solution.

 
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