[SOLVED] HDD Not Showing Up

[kibe]

Hello.

I formated my SSD to free up some space and this is what I did:

I completely turned off my pc;
Took out 2 HDD that were on;
Put them on my table;
Left only the SSD;
Processed to format the SSD and install OS.

After doing all the installation and everything, I turned my PC off again and put back my 2 HDDs. The problem is that now only 1 is showing up on my Windows.

On Disk Management it shows as Disk 2 - Dynamic - Foreign

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On MiniTool Partition Wizard it shows as Disk 3 MBR (Bad Disk) and only gives me the option to convert from dynamic to basic.

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What's going on here? In my opinion it's literally impossible for the HDD to die like this, after 30 minutes because I was installing windows on my SSD.

Thanks :)

 

[kibe]

Also ran a Surface Test, no error was found.

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[Digerati]

See this about "Foreign" disks. I think you should convert that dynamic to basic and see what happens.

 

[kibe]

Thanks a lot man, I wasn't sure if using the Import Foreign or the Convert would erase all my data, but it did the trick. I Imported and now it is showing normally on Windows.

Cheers :)

 

[Digerati]

Great! Glad that worked and thanks for posting your followup!

 

[xilolee]

Then, I marked this thread as solved. ;-)