Win 10 not seeing content on my 2nd HDD

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bakerr

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I added 2nd HDD to my Win10 PC, Is shows Online and Healthy (Primary Partition) in Disk Management. I previously installed the drive and copied about 600GB of files on to it. I had to remove the drive to swap some files and now when I re-install the HDD it does not recognize the files or folders on the drive. It shows okay in Disk Management. Is there a way to get Win10 to update what it sees on the drive so the content is displayed correctly in This PC?

Also, In This PC the drive Total Size and Free Space show correctly and reflect the amount of data I already loaded onto the HDD, but when I click on the drive to open it only one folder is shown, it is miss labeled, and it only has a fraction of the data that I copied to this HDD
 
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Since you're unconcerned with the data that was ostensibly contained on the 4 TB HDD, that considerably simplifies things.

Obviously the first thing to check out (assuming you haven't already done so) is the health of the drive. Do so with a HDD diagnostic program, preferably one from the disk's manufacturer.

Have you tried using a partition management program as part of your troubleshooting routine?

Also, as I previously mentioned try connecting the drive to a USB external device and see what happens insofar as system recognition.

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The drive does have the correct drive letter assigned already
 
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ArtPog

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Well, that's a relief.
I assume you're pretty well satisfied that somewhere down the line you didn't inadvertently delete any of the data (or any partition) that should be residing on that disk, right?
And, of course, you're absolutely sure this IS the drive in question. No chance that there's been some mixup with more than one secondary drive in your possession, right?
Any chance of installing the drive as a USB external drive and accessing its contents that way?
Might want to try one of those "recovery of data" programs and hope for the best. See
https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-recovery-software-tools-2622893 for a listing of freely-available ones.
 
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bakerr

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Yes, I am satisfied that I did not delete data or pick up the wrong drive. I am dealing with 4TB drives. I am not so concerned with recovering the data because I have it backed up and can copy it again from the source drive it is on, just takes time.

My questions is more about avoiding this situation again and how to get the Win10 PC to recognize the drive and its contents correctly. I have resorted to swapping drives in and out of an older machine to back them up to larger drives in a newer machine. The old LAN that these machine are on is limited to 10MB/s. I much prefer having a 150MB/s transfer rate internal to the PC.

I am still trying to figure out how to get Win10 to refresh what it thinks is on this drive. It still sort of thinks it is the drive that was previously installed.
 
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ArtPog

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Since you're unconcerned with the data that was ostensibly contained on the 4 TB HDD, that considerably simplifies things.

Obviously the first thing to check out (assuming you haven't already done so) is the health of the drive. Do so with a HDD diagnostic program, preferably one from the disk's manufacturer.

Have you tried using a partition management program as part of your troubleshooting routine?

Also, as I previously mentioned try connecting the drive to a USB external device and see what happens insofar as system recognition.

 
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