Windows 10: Hard Drives not being seen in W10 after re-plugging them in

Hi everyone

I’ve got a strange problem that I’m struggling with. Firstly I should say it’s on my Mrs PC and she’s currently away with the machine atm so I’m trying to troubleshoot remotely.

1 SSD and 4 HDDs were removed from a perfectly working W10 computer on Friday.

They were stored safely and reconnected today, but they won’t detect properly.
I should note my Mrs knows what she’s doing with connecting components and has built her own computers, so I know they are in correctly. She’s also double checked connections.

Drive configuration:
SSD – BOOT
HDD 1 – WORK
HDD 2 – PHOTO
HDD 3 – VIDEO
HDD 4 – MUSIC

I should note before going into further explanation that all that happened between it working and not working was the drives were taken out and put back in...that's it!


Since plugging everything back in not all the drives have been showing up and something has happened to WORK drive. The permissions seem to have changed and she’s shown these error messages:

d:\Location is not accessible

Access is denied

She could click on the drive properties from Windows explorer

The drive name was also appearing as PHOTO, even though it’s WORK


From Windows Explorer, drive showed as 0 bytes used space/free space, BUT...from Disk Management it CORRECTLY reported the drive size and free space
Drive was still named incorrectly


Clicking on PROPERTIES in DISK MANAGEMENT the error message “You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object” appears in the drive properties. Remember, this can’t be seen from Windows Explorer.


Another strange thing...using Photoshop,she can access the drive that is invalid, open a saved file that is saved as a shortcut in Photoshop, but can’t directly access the files in Explorer.

Using Recuva to see if the drive has completely corrupted, doesn’t show a lot of corruption and in the Recuva dialog window for selecting the drives/folders to scan it even shows some subfolders on the drive, which can’t be seen otherwise.

Having taken the WORK drive out and replugged the other drives in, now NONE of them show in Windows, except obviously the boot drive SSD.

She has checked in the BIOS, all drives appear and are named as normal, it’s when it gets into Windows that the problems start.

We are both really stumped with this and can't figure out what's happening or why.
If it was a bizarre Windows screw up, as a last resort, we'd just take the drives out, format the SSD and reinstall Windows, but we are concerned that if permissions have been altered on the HDDs we may not be able to access them from another machine.

What can we do?


Thanks in advance for any advice,. I've never been actively part of the Microsoft community before, I'm hoping for the best!

:)

 

Overclock your hard drive!!!

Heres a much easier hack that I realized quite a few years ago that really does work!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Hard drive with molex power connection.
• PSU with more than 1 strand that has molex plugs on it.
• Wire strippers, soldering iron if you're fancy, electrical tape if you're not.

STEPS:

• Take the strand of connectors from your PSU, and decide which one will be the donator for this overclocking adventure.
• Cut the yellow and orange cables, then twist them together.
• Find the power connector you've chosen as the overclocking connector, and release the orange cable from the connector. Now use your preferred method to bind them together, then place it back together.
• Plug in a drive and feel the speed!

Congratulations! You've just overclocked your hard drive!

 

Overclock your hard drive!!!

Wut =D

what is that supposed to accomplish?

 

Computer freezes and Explorer doen't respond when I plug an external Hard drive

Hello jobkakule,

The issue is possibly caused by corrupted data or bad sectors on your external hard drive or could be a sign of a failing hard drive.

To better assist you with your concern, I'd like to know the following:

• Confirm which build is currently installed on your device. To check, follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + R, then type in winver.
2. Click OK.

• Have you tried plugging your external hard drive to a different USB port? Also, check if you can access the drive by plugging it to a different computer.
• What is the make and model of your computer?

Meanwhile, I'd suggest to repair the bad sectors on your external hard drive. Kindly refer to the steps below:

(Let's just assume that the drive letter for your external hard drive is E. If not, please do change it to the correct drive letter)

1. Plug in your external hard drive. Click on Start, search for
Command Prompt, right-click on it and select Run as administrator.

2. Type in the following command below and press Enter after each command:

Chkdsk /f E:

Chkdsk /r E:

3. Reboot your computer after the scan is completed.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards.