3 of 4 Hard Drives not recognizable anymore

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I just got back home from being gone for a few weeks, Fire up the rig and start doing some internet browsing and such and I got a notification from my Driver Booster that some drivers were out of date so I went ahead and let it update my stuff, screen was going on and off and said I needed a reestart, so I did. And now Ive noticed that I can only see one drive on my computer which is my 960 Pro M.2 SSD.

Ive tried to re download the software Driver Booster 5 but I cannot.
Disk Managment doesnt show my drives at all execpt my 960 M.2
BIOS shows all of them in the same order as before for the booty order.
Tried a CMD for Diskdrive status and all says okay.

I can really find my issue online anywhere so I am looking for some help and am open to all suggestions.

Samsung 960 Pro M.2 SSD (OS) - Only one working
Samsung 850 Pro SSD 256 GB
Toshiba 1 TB HDD
WD 3 TB HDD

PC Build:
EVGA 850 G3 PSU
i7-7820x
Asus ROG Gaming E MB
Corsair H115i AIO
G Skill 32GB 3200Mhz DDR4
Asus Strix 980 Ti

Windows 10 64 Bit
 
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mazboy
The perfect reason you should never use a utility to do your work for you. This is one of the few times I recommend a Win10 repair, rather than a clean wipe and reinstall. Use your Win10 recovery disk (you have one, right?), or go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and download the Win10 installation. When you boot into the Win10 USB drive, select the first option, where it wants to upgrade/repair just the OS, leaving your files and such alone.

If this doesn't work you're looking at a wipe (actually, a repartition/format for the Samsung 960 Pro m.2 NVMe SSD) and a clean install.
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Try this to see if it work.....Disconnect the other 3 drive (take note which cable for which so it will not mess up later on) and boot up drive with OS only. After boot up then do shut down. Add one more drive connection and boot up, hopefully you will have total 2 drive working. If so, repeat it for other 2 drives.

You can try all 3 drives at once or 1 at a time.
 
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The perfect reason you should never use a utility to do your work for you. This is one of the few times I recommend a Win10 repair, rather than a clean wipe and reinstall. Use your Win10 recovery disk (you have one, right?), or go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and download the Win10 installation. When you boot into the Win10 USB drive, select the first option, where it wants to upgrade/repair just the OS, leaving your files and such alone.

If this doesn't work you're looking at a wipe (actually, a repartition/format for the Samsung 960 Pro m.2 NVMe SSD) and a clean install.
 
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So youre thinking it may be something within the OS that is causing this? I really dont mind a fresh install of Windows to be honest, I just dont want to lose the information on my 3 hard drives. Thanks for the reply, going to try out the suggestion above and then yours if it comes down to it.

 
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Thank you for the response, I have tried this and nothing has changed.

EDIT UPDATE: System Restore fixed my problem, I uninstalled Driver Booster 5. How do you reccomend I keep all my drivers up to date without any third party software?
 
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Actually, Win10 does a pretty fine job of keeping drivers up to date. My theory on drivers (and BIOS, actually) is that if it ain't broke, you can't fix it. Driver updates fall into 2 categories: updates to fix bugs (if you don't have bugs, don't bother with the update, sometimes they introduce bugs of their own), and 2: updates to introduce new features (which probably aren't supported on your old device, anyway, and do you really want/need that latest feature? Also, new driver might mean new bugs. It's an endless circle).
 
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