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My HDD sudden gone missing

Hi Expert,

I have my HDD gone missing, my windows 10 is booting on SSD though. I have check BIOS it's there and it's spinning, however, from disk management, I am unable to see any of the HDD. My pc has 4 fans and temperature was low, appreciate is any expert advice how can I bring my HDD.

Thanks!
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Check the sata cable and if you have a spare replace it.
Hard Drives (traditional ones) have moving parts and WILL fail.  That's why backups are important.

You can try a different cable.  You can try a different SATA port.  You can remove it from the computer and try it in another.  If all fail, it's likely dead.  If all fail, DO NOT put it in the freezer (this can damage it beyond the ability of data recovery to get the data) - send it to a data recovery company (EXPENSIVE).  Or be thankful you have your backups and replace it.

Any Important data should ALWAYS be backed up.  Any extremely important data should be backed up AND live on a RAID.

And yes, EVEN SSDs can fail - if you have anything important there, BACKUP!
I think the drive has simply failed. Put it in a USB drive carrier in another machine. See if it can be seen.

If not and if the data is very important, try a local recovery agency as suggested above
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If you can see it in device manager then get the properties to find make/model and then run the manufacturer's diagnostics.
In addition to all of the above, you want to take the drive out and don't keep running it while it isn't working properly. You are increasing the likely hood of a completely non-recoverable error occurring. You definitely want to make backups of SSD because when those go, there isn't much that can be done to recover the data without trying to recover it from the RAW memory chips, and if you thought spinning disk recovery was expensive, you haven't seen anything yet.
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in disk management, assign a drive letter to the drive - if it has none
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-drive-letter
I would first start with checking if the cables are connected to the drive. And try another SATA port and SATA cable to the same and different SATA ports.
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Hi Expert,

Thank for the kind support.

Try changing other SATA port still same, also it's showing SATA6G_3: DRW-24D5MT without showing the 2TB. Guess it's a physical failure, it's only less than 9 months Seagate brand, having 4 fans inside my gaming pc does not help, and it's not even the main boot. Maybe because long hour of usage, lucky still have a warranty on it. Thanks all
Thanks all for the prompt respond and support
did you check if it has a drive letter?  you did not answer me...
Hi Nobus,

Thank for advice.

It does not have drive letter.
did you give it one ? see my link how to do it
Nothing from hdd was shown over here, not even unallocated
post a screenshot of disk manager showing all drives
Hi Nobus,

I have taken the HDD out already.

Thanks