Windows hard drive detection issue

[Carlhudz]

I am running Windows 10 Home.
I have 2 1TB hard drives. My system drive C and file drive F.
All of a sudden my F drive is no longer recognised within windows. Both drives detected by the motherboard, however when windows loads it vanishes.
I have went into disk management and rescanned for drives. No change.
I have physically removed drive F and hooked up a spare 500gb drive I had lying around. Detected before boot but not after.

I have checked all sata and power connections. Even swapped the power and sata cables and swapped sata connections on the motherboard.

Connected a third hard drive and same situation. Detected before boot but not by windows. What could be causing this very annoying issue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Trouble]

Hello and welcome to the forum.
I've no idea what's going on, but.....
Do you have a means by which you can connect the problem drive(s) externally via USB cabling or perhaps a USB docking station?
OR
Do you have a second working computer that you can use to connect the drives internally and test if they exhibit the same behavior on a different computer?

 

[Wolfie]

Also, what version of W10 are you running?:

https://www.windows10forums.com/threads/how-to-upgrade-windows-10-to-the-latest-version.13015/

 

[BigFeet]

Just for giggles, try giving it a different drive letter.

 

[Carlhudz]

Thanks for the welcome and thank you for all of your answers. Windows did eventually detect my F drive. I haven't a clue what happened.
I did have an issue a few days ago where my rear USB ports stopped working and also my monitor switched off at the same time. I thought maybe the PSU is on the way out. What do you guys think?

 

[Wolfie]

Hi Carlhudz,

if you are having multiple problems, it might be your RAM ?, take a stick out; one at a time and check your systems performance.

Have you also run an Antivirus scan?.