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Hello,
I don't remember the specification of my late windows 11 but my HDD disk was working perfectly fine despite not having been defrag for a couple of months. Recently I reformatted my PC with a new windows 11 and the first thing I noticed was that there was a missing disk in my explorer. Checking out my disk manager was this:
I've been trying to find a solution in forums and Troubleshooting Disk Management for weeks now but to no avail. I also tried to reinstall the disk driver from the device manager, reactivated the disks and installing Seagate tools running diagnostics. Is there perhaps something wrong with the bios that I'd need to reset the bios aswell? or is the disk corrupted? it'd be best if I wouldn't need to format the disk as I have 1TB of data within them that I'd like to keep. Does anyone know how to resolve the issue? Thanks in advance.
Oh, also not sure if it's worth mentioning but before reformatting windows there was a problem with powering down my PC whether it be sleep, shut down or restart. The PC just went into BIOS plenty of times when sleeping and a couple of times when restarting and shutdown.
Hard Disk Type:
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 3.5" SATA 256MB 7200RPM Internal HDD - ST2000DM008
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Doesn't look good.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/troubleshooting-disk-management#a-basic-or-dynamic-volumes-status-is-failed
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Just checking if there's any progress or updates?
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Sorry been busy lately, and had no chance to work on it but the link you provided I've already tried looking over it as mentioned above. My drive still shows up as "Failed". I already tried reformating windows and it's still the same issue. I'm considering resetting the BIOS when I have free time soon.
Sounds good, please don't forget to close up the thread by 
However, still, the issue is unresolved until I try resetting the BIOS on the weekends to see if it works. I'm open to any other solutions that you or anyone might have!
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I have had the same problem. I set my mirror up with Windows 10. Four years later I am doing a fresh install of Windows 11 and it sees my mirrored drives but failed to initialize. It is Microsoft's failure. In fact, trying to use chrome to respond resulted in repeated crashes of the browser but this page works just fine on Edge. I am done with Microsoft. I am wiping my data and starting over on Linux. It is fitting that they bought Bethesda. Trash loves trash.