[AAClayton]

Hey everyone, I've frequently found solutions to problems I have encountered here, so, belated thanks for all the past help. Anyways, here's one I haven't been able to solve.

My desktop has two hard drives connected via SATA, but without RAID configuration. For about two years everything worked just fine.

Just recently however, whenever I boot up the computer, windows is only activating my main drive ( C: ), while my other drive ( F: ) is detected by Windows, but not mapped.

Both drives are properly connected to the motherboard, and detected by BIOS. Device manager shows them both as working properly. Disk management shows my storage drive as being properly assigned to the ( F: ) path, everything "appears" to be working, it just doesn't show up.

Here's the kicker, if I disable and re-enable the drive in device manager it shows up just fine, and works perfectly, so there is clearly no hardware failure involved either. For some reason, the drive just isn't registering into Windows whenever I boot up the machine.

Since I have a workaround, its more of an annoyance than a critical issue, but I would still like to get rid of this hassle.

Thanks in advance,
Andrew