Hey there,
I am building a gaming PC and all was going well. I have 1 hard drive for my windows software, another for games. The PC has worked for 2 days straight. Today after doing some cable management, I logged in and found that this drive (that previously had files on it) was not detected.
I re-cabled and eventually the drive was detected, however it was located in disk management not file explorer.
Here's the problem:
The drive was unallocated and it only had 3.86GB. I was told I had to initialise the drive, and after attempting to do so, I was told that "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
Any help would be great. I don't care about losing any files, just as long as the drive can be used again. I'd like to point out that this issue only occurred once I tried to install a steam library onto the drive. Probably a coincidence, but I figured I may as well mention it. Also by the way, all options to for example make a "New Simple Volume" are blanked out.
Thanks!
I am building a gaming PC and all was going well. I have 1 hard drive for my windows software, another for games. The PC has worked for 2 days straight. Today after doing some cable management, I logged in and found that this drive (that previously had files on it) was not detected.
I re-cabled and eventually the drive was detected, however it was located in disk management not file explorer.
Here's the problem:
The drive was unallocated and it only had 3.86GB. I was told I had to initialise the drive, and after attempting to do so, I was told that "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
Any help would be great. I don't care about losing any files, just as long as the drive can be used again. I'd like to point out that this issue only occurred once I tried to install a steam library onto the drive. Probably a coincidence, but I figured I may as well mention it. Also by the way, all options to for example make a "New Simple Volume" are blanked out.
Thanks!
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