Hard Disk detecting only after restart.

[sasuke108]

My guess is damaged drive. Can you replicate it the issue using a simple USB 3.0 adapter. Super cheap on amazon.

When I restart my pc, the drive works well. So can it really be damaged.

 

[Axman]

If it's still under warranty there's no reason not to try getting the manufacturer to help. They might just want to swap it out.

 

[learners permit]

Get one of these and power it from one of the splitters to see if it spins up for you and is recognized by the controller.

 

[dbwillis]

if you have that 4tb drive as the only drive in the system, connected to the main sata port (sata 0 usually) and you try to install an OS onto it via a USB installer drive, does the drive show up, let the OS install, and work after reboots and/or shut down, power ons?

 

[IceDigger]

Guys, stop telling him to do all this stuff.

Just replace the drive. Easy as that.

I do this stuff day in and day out.....

 

[learners permit]

Maybe he doesn't want to replace it and just wants it to work. Try the power cable I pointed you to that will allow an NAS drive to work as a normal drive, if that doesn't work then you'll likely need a replacement.

 

[sasuke108]

I had sent the drive to be tested. The drive is working fine.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/t...storage/support-for-hard-disks-exceeding-2-tb

According to article above, windows does not detect hard disk above 2TB when the bios is in legacy.

I converted my SSD to GPT and changed my bios to UEFI.
The 4TB is already in GPT.

The problem is not solved.
I have to continue restarting my pc in order to use the 4TB.

Edit: I need to mention that there was an error during after the conversion. Please check the image below.

 

[Luke M]

I had sent the drive to be tested. The drive is working fine.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/t...storage/support-for-hard-disks-exceeding-2-tb

According to article above, windows does not detect hard disk above 2TB when the bios is in legacy.

Not true and not what the article says.