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One of my hard drives does not show up on My Computer page
Hello
So I've been having an issue with a drive on windows ten. Last night i noticed when accessing the contents for it, explorer would hang and stop responding and eventually like 20 minutes later it would actually load.
Now today the drive doesn't show up in the list of hard drives in My Computer but all my other drives do. I am not sure if the drive is dead or not.
Some additional things to note, i did recently buy a new power supply unit and had to re-attatch the sata cables to my drives since i cleaned the tower up, its possible it is not in the same sata slot it was before - not sure if that will cause the computer to get a bit confused?
What steps can i take to determine if its dead or windows 10 is simply having issues accessing it. It worked fine all day yesterday until it started getting slow and then today its gone entirely.
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Further investigating, since unplugging the hard drive , the PC works fine and boots up. Plugging it back in and it won't even pass boot stage it just stuck on the republic of gaming splash screen.
I don't know whether that means the drive is dead or the computer is unhappy with it for some other reason.
Last edited by SirChick; 30 Oct 2016 at 17:51.