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hypogogic

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So I unplugged a single TB internal HD from my computer when giving it a clean out. For some reason it doesn't show up after reinstalling it. There is no clicking coming from the drive and it shows up when put in a caddy through USB.

The drive then seemed to be working. I took a new Sata Cable and plugged it in using that. Still nothing so I replaced the power cable coming from the power supply also. You guessed it., Still nothing lol...

It doesn't show up in disk management or device manager and I cannot for the life of me fathom why. I thought maybe I had tugged the cable and ruined the port it was plugged into. So I changed the port also but that didn't seem to do it. Is there some reason it works inside a usb caddy but not on my computer?

I am running a fairly high end i7 from 2012 sandybridge E hex core 3930k an 16gb 1600Mhz RAM with a 1070 Card, which has been more than enough for everything I do. Mainly virtual box as I study computer networking. As a student I really don't want to fork out on another drive and as I know this one works I'd prefer to get it working with internal SATA.

If any of you have any ideas as to what the problem could be please post and let me know. Thanks in advance for your time.

Cheers
 
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It's obviously good that you got things working just fine again, but I'm just curious both about the problem itself and the "fix". So if you don't mind...a few questions & comments.

(I see from your Tom's profile you're obviously an experienced PC user).

1. You've indicated that you disconnected your 1 TB secondary HDD (I'm assuming, of course, it was a secondary drive at the time) "when giving it a clean out". I assume the "clean out" refers to the PC case/components, i.e., you were NOT referring to a "clean out" (formatting, DiskPart "clean", etc.) with respect to the HDD. So that the HDD presumably contained its "normal" secondary" data. Or were you referring to the HDD in terms of a "clean out"?

2. In any event when reconnecting...
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I got the drive working. I think what happened was that when I inserted another drive and formatted it with the drive letter D it conflicted with the other drive as that was D already so what I did was change the drive letter and reboot and that solved the issue. Thanks very much for the replies though guys :)
 
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It's obviously good that you got things working just fine again, but I'm just curious both about the problem itself and the "fix". So if you don't mind...a few questions & comments.

(I see from your Tom's profile you're obviously an experienced PC user).

1. You've indicated that you disconnected your 1 TB secondary HDD (I'm assuming, of course, it was a secondary drive at the time) "when giving it a clean out". I assume the "clean out" refers to the PC case/components, i.e., you were NOT referring to a "clean out" (formatting, DiskPart "clean", etc.) with respect to the HDD. So that the HDD presumably contained its "normal" secondary" data. Or were you referring to the HDD in terms of a "clean out"?

2. In any event when reconnecting the HDD internally in the system (its usual place), the drive was not detected in the system. I'm sure you checked that aspect carefully.

3. But when connected as a USB external device it performed without problems.

4. Then you connected another secondary drive in the system and assigned the same drive letter to this new drive which was the same letter as had been assigned to the problem HDD, right? You say it "conflicted" with the other (let's call it the original) HDD. How did you determine this "confliction"? The "new" HDD also wasn't detected and this was a clue that the overall problem had something to do with assigning drive letters to the drives? Was that your thought at the time? Or was there something else?

5. It just seems to me that the assignment of this or that drive letter should not have had any impact on the problem you encountered let alone be the solution to the problem in this instance. But I've been around PCs long enough to know that strange unanswerable solutions to problems occur from time to time. It's why I've expunged words from my "computerese" vocabulary like "always" and "never'.

6. So if it would please you to respond to the above I'd be appreciative.

 
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