can't see one of my drives after clean install of Win 10

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  1. Berton
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    Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint
       New #11

    As for the opening of .doc/.docx files, they can contain infected macros, dangerous.

    Problems can occur when installing/reinstalling Windows and having more drives than needed actually connected to get Windows up and running, they can always be dealt with later.
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  3. dalchina
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    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       New #12

    Agreed- Disk 1.
    Similar (ish) here:
    Missing Hard drive after installing Win 10 Solved - Windows 10 Forums

    You may need to try recovering data from it if you don't have a backup.

    There were a few reports of inaccessible/vanishing disks at one point after installing Win 10.
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  4. alphanumeric
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    Windows 10 IoT
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    dalchina said:
    Agreed- Disk 1.
    Similar (ish) here:
    Missing Hard drive after installing Win 10 Solved - Windows 10 Forums

    There were a few reports of inaccessible/vanishing disks at one point.
    I had one internal drive become RAW during an upgrade. It was a while back, don't remember what build it was. I lost what was on it. I had backups anyway. I just had to partition and format it to get full use of it again.
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