Windows 10: Secondary HDD Keeps Disappearing while installing games on to it

Hello All

I've encountered a weird problem with my PC. Not long ago i bought a new HDD 1tb Seagate Barracuda because I assumed my old one has died I've had it for 6 years ish. when it arrived i slotted it in to my PC and tried to format, it wouldn't work. An error kept appearing, my initial thoughts where that it's a faulty HDD and so i send it back. When the new one arrived I've managed to format it no problem but when i tried to install a game on it, it disappeared and only after i "Scanned for Hardware Changes" in Computer Management i got it back. I decided to switch my SATA cables with my OS containing SSDto see if it's a faulty SATA cable, which sorted the problem for a while. I've managed to install a couple of games on it and play some. However when i tried to install another game Rainbow Six Seigh today it disappeared again. It does reappear normal with all the files on it if i search for it in the Computer Management. I've tried making changed in the power settings and made sure that the hard disk doesn't turn off. I have also tried switching ports around. I cannot for the life of me whats happening?

In even Viewer The messages appearing are:

"The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR4, is not ready for access yet."

"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR4 during a paging operation."

"Disk 0 has been surprise removed.""The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: D:, DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume7.
STATUS_DEVICE_NOT_CONNECTED"

My specs are:

Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

CPU - Processor AMD FXtm-6300 Six-Core Processor, 3500 Mhz, 3 Cores, 6 Logical Processors

Storage - SSD Kingston 250MB HDD <---The problem Seagate Baraccuda 1TB

Power Supply - Arctic 750W

GPU not sure in relevant but - ASUS GTX 970

OS - Windows 10

Thank you in advance for all the help

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I realize that the secondary HDD disappears after waking up from sleep mode. I will try to help you with this issue.

You may run the Power troubleshooter and restart the computer to check if this helps.

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  Press “Windows key + X” and click on “Control Panel”.
  
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  Click on “View all” and select “Power”.
  

Follow the on-screen directions to run this troubleshooter completely. Once this is done, restart the computer and check the touchpad status.

Further, suggest you to restore the power plans settings to default and check if it helps.

a. Right-Click on Start button, and click on Command Prompt (Admin).

b. In the command prompt, type “powercfg –restoredefaultschemes” and hit Enter.

c. Exit command prompt.

Note: This would reset the power plan settings to default. Any customized power plans are would be removed.

Restart the PC and check the status.

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