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Who makes the drive? &nbsp;As said, CHKDSK is not a hardware checking tool.
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Who makes the drive?  As said, CHKDSK is not a hardware checking tool.

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Do you see it in Computer Management?
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probably it lost it's drive letter somehow<br />
you should be able to see the drive in disk management, ansd assign a new letter
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probably it lost it's drive letter somehow
you should be able to see the drive in disk management, ansd assign a new letter

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not showing in server manager/disk management. ordering a new drive.
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not showing in server manager/disk management. ordering a new drive.

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does it show in the bios? if not it is surely bad - or the cables/connectors to it
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does it show in the bios? if not it is surely bad - or the cables/connectors to it

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Can a hard drive still fail despite passing a chksdsk? I have a hard drive in a machine storing backups. The backups starting receiving errors related to a disk failing. I ran a chkdsk which passed according to the event log but I don't see the drive anymore in the server manager console.
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Can a hard drive still fail despite passing a chksdsk? I have a hard drive in a machine storing backups. The backups starting receiving errors related to a disk failing. I ran a chkdsk which passed according to the event log but I don't see the drive anymore in the server manager console.

drive passed chkdsk but no longer showing in server manager console

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