[SOLVED] HDD Drive disappeared now sdd won't boot

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

So last night I was playing on my PC I built. My barracuda 4tb HDD drive disappeared with no warning and no noises. It doesn't even show in my BIOs and the event viwer says says event 45 and a message I can't remember or get to it now because my computer won't post.
Now my COMPUTER won't boot.
The boot drive is NOT the HDD that crapped out. It is a drive 2tb Seagate SSD with only the operating system on it and a few associated files.
So I have more than one problem. Two hard drives out at the same time?! I think not. That's ludacris.
I don't know where to start. What is this??! This is crazy and a first for me. Is it my MOBO? My PSU? My sata cable chain? My
PSU is a gold standard semi modular.
My MOBO is an Asus 270z
CPU I7 7700K
G SKILL 16 G RAM
GPU GTX 1080 DUKE
Boot drive 2tb SSD
Drive that disappeared is the 4tb barracuda HDD

USAFRet · Dec 31, 2018

When you installed the OS on the SSD, were both drives connected?
If so, what happened was that the boot partition ended up on the HDD> Not something you chose...it just did it.

Now that the HDD is gone (for whatever reason), no boot for you.

Possible fix:
Disconnect the HDD, have only the SSD connected.
Boot up from your OS install USB, and run the Repair function.
This might fix it.

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

USAFRet :

I was wondering if I could do that without making things worse LOL.
So I disconnect hdd, turn on pc, go into bios, with us OS, boot with us is,a repair, and then boot again off of sdd. Then try to plug HDD in?
I will keep you posted. Thank you for your prompt reply and happy New year.

USAFRet · Dec 31, 2018

yahwehrisenking :

You boot up from a Win 10 USB that you used to install it.
Not the current non-functioning SSD.

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

USAFRet :

yahwehrisenking :

You boot up from a Win 10 USB that you used to install it.
Not the current non-functioning SSD.

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

Right got it. Just making sure. I will tell you what's going on soon thank you

USAFRet · Dec 31, 2018

yahwehrisenking :

OK

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

USAFRet :

Here we go. I moved both my disk sata cables to two different positions on my MOBO (6 slot 3.0 on my MOBO)
My computer went into repair mode. Three tries later my SSD is now running Windows. Regarding my 4tb HDD, My device manager is showing an unallocated and uninitialized 3gb "unknown drive"
Event 442 not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match. Keeping in mind that the drive went tits up during use with no warnings. The serial that is showing under drives in device manager is the HDD serial. In properties it says device is working properly. Not showing under drive tree in OS

USAFRet · Dec 31, 2018

So, for whatever reason, your 4TB drive is toast.
It happens.

Just last week, I had a 960GB SSD die from a simple power off then power on.
Totally dead.

Couple of years ago, a 3TB HDD died in the course of 36 hours or so.
Dead.

This is when you recover your data from your backup, and get a warranty replacement for the dead drive.

yahwehrisenking · Dec 31, 2018

USAFRet :

So it's 1 1/2 years old and they just reduced the warranties from 5 years to one year. Them sons of turds. I may be able to wire it up to another PC as an external and retrieve some data off of it and reformat. I know it wasn't ""physically"" damaged LOLOLOL. I specifically made my build with redundant hard drive protection measures. So, I hope, not holding my breath, that I can reformat it and see what it does. I will keep you posted

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