Windows 10: Windows 10 tried to Fix a storage non boot Hard Drive at post. Drive no longer accessible.

My PC boots from an SSD but has other drives attached for storage 1 further SSD and 4 mechanical drives.


Recently I experienced the PC being very slow to boot up. When I realised it might be a storage drive issue I disconnected power to all the mechanical drives.


This pretty much confirmed there was an issue with one of the mechanical disks as PC started booting normally.


I am now appreciating that most PC's have only 1 disk controller which can get stalled if any drive using the controller starts to show any issues. A bit like a roll call, if any drive doesn't respond the PC will keep trying to get a response before checking the next drrive in the list.


I tried reconnecting a suspected drive to troubleshoot it and low and behold while booting the windows 10 logo appears but then the message "Fixing Disk..." etc. appeared. What was odd is it did not look like the normally chkdsk text.


After some time it appeared to resolve the issue and yet once booted the drive was not accessible.


I tried to boot another couple of times wiht the same result.


Drive is now disconnected until I can determine possible steps to access it.


Can anyone shed any light on what Windows actually ran during boot up as it did not appear to be chkdsk. I Am also keen to determine what Windows may have doen that might make the drive not accessible.


Thanks

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-Both drives appear in the bios
-Only the 500gb drive appears to be bootable
-The 2TB HD was booting just fine until i came to visit my parents and found it was booting off the 500gb (everything was old and not updated)
-The 2TB drive can be seen from the windows of the 500gb drive.

I don't suppose there would be a quick fix for this? I'm having trouble finding information on google because it's mostly just entry after entry of drives not being visible in windows.

 

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everything I can and have only been able to free up 11Gb so far so my c drive is still showing red. At this point is the only other step to reload the pc, or does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be and how to fix?

Thanks,

Heather