Windows 10: HDD not recognised on bootup

Hi all,


My PC was on playing Spotify, I came back to it after being in the other room and the PC had crashed and booted to a 'no recognised boot disk' screen.


I've tried Startup Repair which as far as I know has never worked for me or anyone I know on any problem ever, and then tried Bootrec. It said successfully completed FixMBR - but it still won't see the HDD.


I'm not sure what to try next. I'd ideally not like to reset/reinstall, but am aware that may be the only option... if the HDD is still even working.


I do have another blank HDD which isn't connected, but I don't want to go through the hassle of installing there if the other one is fixable.


Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Thanks



Details:


Win 10 Upgrade from 8.1

Intel i5 Quad core

Asrock Anniversary Motherboard

8gb RAM DDR3

Nvidia 1070 GFX card

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Not recognising HDD

I recently updated to Windows 10 Anniversary Update, when I put my computer to sleep when it wakes up it does not recognise my Toshiba HDD. I run my OS and main programs off my Samsung SDD but my documents, music, photos etc. are on my other HDD which is
not being recognised by my computer. After I restart my computer it shows up again, but if were to put it to sleep again, it would not appear.

When it is not showing up in "my computer" it is also not appearing on device manager.

Suggestions?

 

unlock hdd

Hi Johan,

It is possible that your
HDD was unreadable
causing the error message to appear. We recommend that you perform these troubleshooting steps and check if there are any changes:

• 
  Shutdown
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Unhooked
  the
  HDD
  and
  turn on
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Reconnect
  your
  HDD
  and
  restart
  your
  PC.
  

If the issue persists, we suggest that you contact your
laptop/computer's manufacturer
for further assistance.

Update us on how it goes.

Regards.

 

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in the fact I have installed a SSD in my machine. Windows is recognising the correct size of my SATA HDD however and the SSD isn't showing up quite rightly as its Linux formatted. Using a third party defragmentation program exactly the same problem occurs,
however I was able to defragment my C drive using it as it just warned against it and didn't prohibit me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.