hard drive - How to find second HDD on Windows 8.1

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2014-07
  • JordanD

    I have 1 SSD and 1 HDD on my computer. When I look at device manager the HDD is found and working fine, but I can't figure out how to navigate to it. I am installing applications onto the SSD, but want to download other files and store things onto the HDD. My computer only shows the C drive as SSD and no other drives.

    How do I navigate to the HDD?

    If I need to include more information or screen shots let me know.

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  • AaronHatton

    I have a Windows 8.1 machine with decent specifications which at random points hangs, freezes (so you can only move your mouse) and then blue screens.

    I have contacted Microsoft Support but they have had to escalate to Tier 3 which they said don't respond for up to 2 weeks so I wonder if anyone can help with my issue.

    I personally believe this to be a failing hard drive but would like to know otherwise, I have re-installed graphics drivers etc. but when using Spotify to listen to music when it crashes the song continues for a few seconds and then stops.

    As already mentioned I have re-installed the graphics drivers and all are up to date, I know the more recent blue screen is NVIDIA but I am not sure if that is a red herring or not...

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    Windows is installed onto Disk 2 which is a 256GB Brand new SSD

    Disk 3 is a 2TB internal hard drive used for applications and data etc...

    Two NVIDIA 660-TI Graphics Cards installed in SLI

    I also noticed these in my event viewer under system:

    An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation.

    Because of this I took it upon myself to run a check disk

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    For some reason the log does not include everything but I would really like to have a suggestion as to whether it is worth going out and paying for a new hard drive or something else?

    Thanks in advance!

    Please note: I only have three blue screens because when I am coding, working or whatever I tend to just restart the computer to get it to work again quickly so I can finish with what I am doing.

    UPDATE

    I have since had 2 more blue screens for different reasons so I am now stuck...

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  • AaronHatton

    I have found the issue to have been the install of Windows and the disk I was using, have since changed the disk and re-installed on a new SSD, this fixed all of my issues