Second HDD not recognized after switch HDD to SSD

jumanji said:

Hi @raver4444

If you have MiniTools Partition Wizard installed, post a screenshot of how the disks show in it.

Also a screenshot of Windows Disk Management.

jumanji said:

Hi @raver4444, Good morning.

Thanks for the screenshots.

However it does not give any clue as to what could have happened.. Since it has a drive letter a valid partition exists and it is not a partition lost problem.

Usually when the disk has a drive letter but shows as RAW , it could be due to a corrupted volume boot sector, corrupted backup of the volume bootsector -either or both - or corrupted MFT. In such cases we run File system utility in TestDisk to ascertain which is bad and initiate corrective action to make the disk accessible..

But in your case you say that when you replace the SSD with the original HDD, you are able to see and access all data. So I rule out running TestDisk on it.

The only jarring thing I find is that the secondary HDD is "active" . It need not be active.

Using Partition Wizard, right click on the "unformatted" partition, in the resulting menu set it inactive, click on "Apply" in the top menu bar.After it gets executed and set inactive, reboot the PC and check whether the HDD becomes accessible.

If it does not, I would advise you to replace the SSD with the original HDD, copy all data in the secondary HDD to another external HDD.

Once done, safely remove the external HDD, put the SSD back in place and then format the secondary HDD after a clean wipe - disk part "clean all".

Unfortunately the ACTIVE / INACTIVE did not work.

I reconnected old HDD, transferred everything to an external SSD, formatted old partition and copied it back from external SSD. All set !
Thank you guys for the hope

Good to know.