Timeline for Switched SATA Hard Drive, Same Brand and Size, Now Showing As Wrong Drive/Blank
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| Mar 22 at 12:53 | comment | added | theguitarman | "Recognized as Drive A" means it showed the drive letter and file structure of the files on Drive A, but if you tried to open anything, it realized it is not there and would throw an error. | |
| Mar 22 at 12:52 | comment | added | theguitarman | Oddly enough, after shutting down and booting up 3-4 times with no success, I took the advice to restart, and it came up normally. Would like to understand what happened. | |
| Mar 21 at 21:56 | answer | added | NerdAlert | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 21 at 21:25 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | "recognized as Drive A" - It's unclear to me what you exactly mean by this. | |
| Mar 21 at 21:08 | comment | added | theguitarman | Yes, the computer seemed to cache some info and think that I had not switched drives. | |
| Mar 21 at 21:08 | comment | added | theguitarman | Yes, assigned it the same drive letter as the last one, incorrectly. The Drive A is assigned V, Drive B is J. When I plugged in Drive B, it came up as V. After doing a completely different drive, it is now back recognized as J, but showing as blank. | |
| Mar 21 at 21:05 | comment | added | theguitarman | Will try rebooting instead of shutdown and startup. | |
| Mar 21 at 20:47 | comment | added | harrymc | Try to disable Fast Startup. | |
| Mar 21 at 20:17 | comment | added | Yorik | so you are saying that the computer is somehow caching information about the file system for drive A between cold boots even when that drive is not physically connected to the system? Assuming neither A nor B is the system volume. | |
| Mar 21 at 20:13 | comment | added | music2myear | Recognized it incorrectly? What do you mean by this? Did it assign it the same drive letter, or something else? Can you please clarify this part of your question? | |
| Mar 21 at 20:13 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | Can you try rebooting instead of shutting down? | |
| Mar 21 at 20:03 | history | asked | theguitarman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |