I’ve been juggling HDDs for decades but have a weird problem with this HDD. It works in it’s original PC, a Lenovo AIO. However that AIO now has a broken screen so I’m trying to get the data off the HDD. Attach it inside a PC or via a dock and Windows 11 on two computers refuses to see the drive. It is visible in the BIOS on both computers.
Boot from a Linux Mint stick & the drive is now visible and the files are copied. Why would Win11 including diskmgmt.msc not recognise this drive?
Win 11 doesn’t understand Linux file systems. You need WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
https://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/
Show us the Partitions tab in DMDE:
It is a Win11 NTFS drive. I booted from a Linux USB stick as a last resort and the OS read the disk. Linux is on the stick not on the computer.
Can you see it in Device Manager?
No only the Windows OS drive. List disk in Diskpart does not see it either. Still there in BIOS on two PCs so it can’t be the cables or ports. I’ve got the files off with the Linux boot stick onto the Windows OS drive but it’s still a pain to have to do it that way.
Try experimenting with the SATA controller settings in BIOS.
That is on AHCI which I always use
Check with the disk manager in Windows and see if it is recognized. You may need to format the disk fresh if the contents are illegible.
No only visible in BIOS
