@Vakma said in Hard Drive Missing after Game Install:
I'm pretty sure that it's got something to do with the game itself, both me and my girlfriend have had the same issue. Lucky for me I had two hard drives, but once we tried to uninstall the game, my secondary drive (where it was installed) and her only drive both got killed. The issue seems that the computer can still detect the drive, but whatever files or code that causes it to actually obtain info off the drive is liable to be deleted. I can still find my drive through disk management but as soon as I uninstalled the game the drive died now I can't access it. Also this game had that problem back in 2013, where it would kill players hard drives...
I have never heard of that happening with JP. Also, you already said that it doesn't appear in BIOS. If it doesn't appear in BIOS, but it does appear in Disk Management, the hard drive is just dead, though not completely dead. One of my family member's HDD recently just died all of a sudden, but they didn't even have this game installed. It showed up in Disk Management, but none of the hard drive partitions would open. They had it split into 4 drive letters. Sometimes they just wouldn't show up at all, but still showed in Disk Management. This is apparently an issue of dead disc in the HDD or an I/O error, which happens after too many read-write attempts In other words, a hard drive that died of natural causes from aging.