Second HDD stops working after accessing it under Linux

[TJSwoboda]

As the title says: I have Linux Mint installed on a 30 GB SSD. I disconnected my main Windows drive, booted in Linux for a few minutes, during which time I listened to some music on the second drive.

Since reconnecting my Windows drive, the second physical drive doesn't show up in disk management (either pane on the right), but it still shows in the BIOS. Any ideas, SVTP IT folks?

 

[TJSwoboda]

Here's exactly what I'm experiencing:

Is this like having simultaneous tea and no tea? (sorry, BAD nerd joke...)

 

[bluestang41505]

Did you try unplugging the HD power and turning it back on? Has worked for me before

 

[MovingZen]

Try a 'scan for hardware changes' in device manager? or right there in disk management, under 'action' try 'rescan disks.'

 

[TJSwoboda]

Did you try unplugging the HD power and turning it back on? Has worked for me before

I'm fairly sure I did, but I'll try it again in a minute...

Try a 'scan for hardware changes' in device manager? or right there in disk management, under 'action' try 'rescan disks.'

I'm still running XP (want to replace it with Linux), and I'm not finding that action in device manager or disk management.

A friend on another board suggested that the SATA mode in my BIOS may have been switched to ATA emulation (causing the optical drive to mask the existence of my WD 2 TB HD), and that it should be set to AHCI. Setting it to AHCI, as seen below, causes the computer to reboot as Windows tries to start.

 

[TJSwoboda]

Did you try unplugging the HD power and turning it back on? Has worked for me before

Eureka! This was it. Thanks!