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catastrophic hard drive problem
I got the worse easter present today.... the internal harddrive which holds 99% of all my data has COMPLETELY disappeared. I have a sickening feeling that it has died.
I have not installed any new programs I do remember a virus update was done yesterday by Mcaffee.
All of my programs/ drivers ect are housed on my c:drive (internal) I had a second internal harddrive 2tb seagate (f drive) that held all my data. That is the one that has disappeared.
Basically, the f drive does not appear at all in either windows explorer or Speccy.
I have opened up the box, unplugged / replugged both the power and data cables that go into the back of the hard drive. Restarted computer, still no harddrive.
1) What other things can I do to try and troubleshoot, particularly if somehow a software problem could be causing this?
2) Also what other things should I troubleshoot from a hardware perspective.
Any and all help would be appreciated.