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MISSING DISK DRIVE IN WIN 8

Hi, When I booted up, under WIN 8, just before and tried to access one of my data drives (not the system drive) it did not show up in "This PC", computer management "Disk Management" or in the "Device Manager". When I tried to run a shortcut for an app on the missing drive, I got a drive connection missing message. All other drives are being accessed just fine and everything else seems to be running AOK. Thank for your help, Clarke

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HI, THANKS for getting back to me so quick. It is an internal hdd. I have done several reboots/cold starts and unplugging and powering up restarts. I also can not find the drive in the bios. I really hate to have to open the case if I do not have to, but that is the only way I know of to tell if the drive has gone bad.

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HI FOLKS, Well, I bit the bullet and pulled the drive out and it is bad. That is, I can not access it using an external mount and in another external drive it just flashes red. What a shame, this PC just went into service by me last week. Oh well, at least it was not the system drive. I had an old backup disk available and since I had everything open I put that one into the PC. The PC booted up just fine and recognized the new disk. But, since it is an exact copy of one of my external drives I am getting a signature collision error when I try to mount the external drive. Just to be thorough I am running a full format on the newly installed drive and when it finishes later tonight, if i am still awake, I will handle the signature collision problem. Thanks to all for your help and have a blessed happy thanksgiving, Clarke

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Thanks for feedback. Get another drive ASAP and do regular backups of your data. It is pity but the hardware fails and we can do nothing with it. Only try to assure us through backups.
Get for yourself a decent backup tool, free one for example and take disk level images of your system. It will save you lots of nerves and time.
Use this tool or similar one: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html