Windows 10: Second hard drive occasionally dissapears in Windows 10

Discus and support Second hard drive occasionally dissapears in Windows 10 in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Bought a brand new HP Z4 G4 computer and added a brand new Western Digital black 6TB hard drive. After waking computer from sleep it can't see the 6TB... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by ScottBridge, Aug 7, 2018.

  1. SCOTTBRIDGE
    ScottBridge Win User

    Second hard drive occasionally dissapears in Windows 10


    Bought a brand new HP Z4 G4 computer and added a brand new Western Digital black 6TB hard drive. After waking computer from sleep it can't see the 6TB hard drive occasionally! Maybe twice a week this happens, but the other 10 times it can see it fine. When it can't see the drive I have to go into Disk Management and click on "Rescan Disks" and it instantly appears and everything if fine for a couple days. Because of the randomness of this issue I wonder if it's not the computer rather than Windows 10. I have all updates installed.

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    ScottBridge, Aug 7, 2018
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  2. NOLANHBK
    nolanhbk Win User

    My Hard Drive Dissapeared?

    My Hard Drive has always showed up and worked perfectly, although recently it dissapeared. I found an old flashdrive in my house and wanted to check if anything important was on it, but after i ejected it, TONS of my stuff was not working then I realized
    my second hard drive dissapeared. Has this happened to anyone else or is there a fix for this? Thank!
     
    nolanhbk, Aug 7, 2018
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  3. LITTLE CAT
    little cat Win User
    little cat, Aug 7, 2018
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  4. KBD
    KBD Win User

    Second hard drive occasionally dissapears in Windows 10

    Cannot access my second hard drive in XP

    I just noticed that my second hard drive dissapeared from my computer, i decided to restart the pc hoping it would reappear, it did, however i still can't access it when i try to open it i get the following message: H:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadeable. BIOS still sees it, when i restart the PC, it lists both of my hard drives and both optical drives, but i can't open it in Windows.

    This was preceeded by somewhat strange behavior this morning, my PC would not boot into XP and would freeze after the Windows is loading message, i had to restart several times by pushing the restart button to log on. It was somewhat slow at first but after the next restart was back to normal, and then i noticed the missing second HD. I don't even know if its a hardware or a software issue. Can someone help me with this?
     
    KBD, Aug 7, 2018
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