Lost access to hard drive

[Exeodus]

Long story short, I cloned an old HDD to a SSD, but the drive letter assignment got crossed with another drive. So i changed the first drive to a letter that I thought wasn't being used so I could swap the letters of the two drives. I didn't play enough attention to the warning, and the other drive that I took the drive letter assignment from by mistake is now missing. Disk Management doesn't see it at all, nor does Device Manager. Even the BIOS now doesn't see it. Do I have any way to get this hard drive to be recognized again?

Thanks,

 

[LukeTbk]

Have you tried unplugged the drive that stole and now have the letter of the drive that you can't see anymore in the bios ?(If I did not get things mixed)

 

[Shoganai]

Can you see the drive with Minitool Partition Wizard?

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

[michalrz]

Even the BIOS now doesn't see it. Do I have any way to get this hard drive to be recognized again?

I don't think this would happen through messing up the partition structure.
Do you mean - the boot menu does not show you available partitions (like, UEFI and such)?
Or does it not even see the physical device at the end of the cable?

 

[Exeodus]

I got lucky. It turns out that drive cable partially unplugged while swapping out a different drive. The drive is intact.

Thanks for the responses.

 

[pendragon1]

if the bios suddenly loses a drive, always check the cables first.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

I got lucky. It turns out that drive cable partially unplugged while swapping out a different drive. The drive is intact.

Thanks for the responses.

That’s the luckiest ending to this problem. Glad you got it sorted.

 

[Shoganai]

I got lucky. It turns out that drive cable partially unplugged while swapping out a different drive. The drive is intact.

Thanks for the responses.

It's always something silly, isn't it? This happens to me all the time.

 

[funkydmunky]

It just shows that even though we are all smarter then most here, always go back and check the basics.
Step one is always step one.
Glad it is fixed