Windows 10: My PCs HDD starts up, but isn’t detected and won’t boot the system

my PC had a few crashes, and every boot would say “non system or desk error” something like that, after trying over and over to get the bios to detect this hard drive, it still doesn’t detect it... even after swapping cables.

I can hear the hard drive start up, but its never detected... what do i do? I’ve still got important files on this drive!

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many times when i restart my PC.. my motherboard won’t detect or boot from my HDD

hello ladies and gentlemens

can you help me please *Frown

the problem is when i (( restart )) my pc ... many times not just sometimes its like 70% my motherboard won’t boot or detect my main hard drive .. and its very annoying

and the only way to make it boot is to force it to shut down by pressing power button ( front case )
and this is my last option after trying to restart again
because i don’t like to turn off my pc suddenly , i think it can damage hard drives on " long term"

do you think the problem in the hard drive ? or motherboard ? or what ?
and the weird thing i think this only happen when i (restart)

i appreciate any suggestions or info


specs :

Asrock FATAL1TY Z170 PROFESSIONAL GAMING I7 motherboard
WD Black 2TB Performance 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache - WD2003FZEX hard drive .. connected to (SATA3_0) which is recommended in owner manual
EVGA SuperNOVA G2 750W power supply ( more than enough for my pc )

also i have other hard drives , but they have nothing to do with boot problems i think ( they don’t have system , only for files storage )

1TB WD blue 7200 RPM - WD10EZEX connected to (SATA3_1)

and 2.5 inch hard drive connected to (SATA3_2)

if you need more info about my pc , click on (System Specs)

i have this problem for long time , but i was lazy and busy to write about it

best regards ❤ *Toast :toast:

 

many times when i restart my PC.. my motherboard won’t detect or boot from my HDD

At this point, i would remove your boot drive, keep everything the same, get a spare/blank hdd and install windows to see if you can get a working system... (might remove the other drives )



Or if that is not possible install linux, on a blank drive just to check if the system will boot...


I am not suggesting a reinstall just a test on a blank drive, a new install of the OS.
If you can not get a new OS running, you might me SOL.

 

PC won’t boot up, stuck on “Restoring previous version”

So after downloading the most recent windows 10 update, my PC won’t boot. It turns on, displays my motherboard logo and such and then goes to a black screen that says “restoring your previous version of windows...”. This will only stay on the screen for
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