> Seems like hard drive goes back live and dead randomly
Yes, this is possible.
Several problems with hard drives, with CHKDSK and EFI partition
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Anonymous
Hello,
My first problem is that i run powershell with admin rights and ran chkdsk f: /f /r . I thought it would restart pc after that but no, just started running chkdsk until now, so i could access the disk. Now, after about 3 hours total progress is 0%, but in phase 2, is this normal? should i wait? HD is not SSD and with 3.63TB capacity. I made chkdsk previously with CMD and didnt take so long, maybe is slower cause didnt boot windows?
Another problem is that the hard drive which made the windows boot was hit and cant be recovered. I had a SSD with the old windows partition, but dont know why needed this other hard drive to boot, i couldnt start Windows so i saw in the internet that could use bootrec /fixmbr, then bootrec /fixboot and then bootrec /rebuildcbd but that just made it worse. After making a clean install in other SSD i see the old windows partition in the other SSD shows my partition with all the data as EFI dont know why and cant access it, i tried to assign it a letter but gives me access denied
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Anonymous
2022-04-17T18:44:59+00:00 I see again the letter of the hard drive and hard drive apps are detecting it again like Easeus or Disk Drill, but not DMDE, i will see if they do something. Seems like hard drive goes back live and dead randomly
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Anonymous
2022-04-17T18:42:10+00:00 You are an ****
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Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor2022-04-17T16:24:31+00:00 > DMDE doesnt recognice my hard drive, neither the BIOS
This means hardware problems with this drive. In your Easeus link this is described as "Your drive is dead". Sorry for bad news.
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Anonymous
2022-04-17T14:26:53+00:00 Wow, this imploded for you lol.
"DMDE doesnt recognice my hard drive, neither the BIOS"
If the BIOS doesn't see it and if its an SSD type then try powering off and/or removing power to the drive for at least 10 seconds (maybe up to 1 hour; in worst case much longer)... and see if it shows up again after power on. SSD controllers can lock the drives for protection and when this happens they disappear from even the BIOS. Corruption can happen as well.
Thanks. This : "SSD controllers can lock the drives for protection and when this happens they disappear from even the BIOS" was important for me. All people say only "hardware issue" but never they explain the possible cause... the PSU was the issue (for me) but as the ssd disappear from bios then "they" say ssd / hard is the problem ...