Windows 10: Have I got a Faulty Harddrive

I have a brand new Extra harddrive 4TB for my Backups. I used it for a couple of days and then it just disappeared from windows. It's not in computer management but it is showing in the bios. Problem is that now I can't boot into windows if it is connected. I tried rearranging the boot order but it didn't help at all. I tried it again with all other harddrives removed except of course for C: drive and I still can't boot into windows. I connected it to my laptop and got the same problem.I have now purchased another drive but need to be sure the problem one is faulty before I return it.

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Is my harddrive faulty?

Please pull your CMOS battery, wait 20 seconds, install. Enter BIOS, set date and time, make sure SATA is set to AHCI

Make sure your are booting UEFI

Boot from media and redo the shift + F10 instructions above. Then install windows using custom. (Step 10 of this Tutorial)

Clean Install Windows 10

Then skip to Step 13. How big of a drive shows in the Window for step 13. Notice the note within step 13





Can you click Next?

 

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Faulty harddrives

Hi,

I've had my pc for about 3years now and it's been working perfectly fine with no issues. I upgraded to Windows 10 sometime near the middle to end of last year. Haven't had any issues at all, until now.

I have 2 internal harddrives, both are 1TB, the one is a WD 10EADS and the other one a Seagate. My 1 harddrive is partitioned with windows installed on it, the other one has all my random bits and pieces. Now the problem is :

I spotted that my 1 drive stopped showing up in windows explorer, I did a few restarts and also told windows to check for updates. didn't help. Also ran CCleaner, Malware bytes and Windows defender multiple times with no issues found.

So I went on the forums and read up a bit, I tried -

1. Checking Disk management, only 1 drive shows, right click and pulled up properties and it's properties for the WD

2. Check Device manager, only the WD shows under disk drives

2.a. Right clicked on WD and uninstalled

3. tried different cables on both drives in different SATA slots

In between all the above I restarted my pc.

But still only the 1 drive is showing... now for more confusion. I unplugged the Seagate and tried starting up with just the WD but got the 'no operating system found' error. So I tried starting up with just the Seagate plugged in and got the 'insert boot
device' error. I checked in the BIOS that my boot priority has hard drive as the first one.

When I have both harddrives plugged in windows starts up, but I can only see the 1 hard drive in explorer, Disk Manager and Device manager.

I can hear and feel them both whizzing away like they normally do. my games and programs works perfectly fine I just can't access files that I used to be able to access when both where visible. I have no idea what to do next and can't find any relating forums,
please if anyone have any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.