Slow Boot and Not detecting 2nd Hard drive Predator Helios 300 Model PH315 - 53

ChiragChitale

I have an Acer Predator Helios 300 Model PH315 - 53, I have been using this laptop for about a month.
My laptop has 2 drives, 1 SSD of 256 GB and 1 HDD of 1TB .Till yesterday my laptop was working completely fine no issue what so ever but today when I switched on my laptop it took about 5 min to just show the predator logo boot screen and another 2 min to get into windows, when I trying opening a game which was saved in my 2nd Hard drive it gave me an error showing 'path not found' and when I opened my file manager my 2nd hard drive was not showing in there, I open disk management drive didn't show there as well, Then I thought I had downloaded an app yesterday I thought it might have caused this issue so I tried uninstalling it but that didn't work either, so I tried resetting my laptop completely. I have now done a reset but still my drive wouldn't show and it would still take 5 min to show the predator logo on boot and another 2 min of loading. "I have even tried to do a battery reset"

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AnhEZ28

There is a chance that your HDD has failed. If you can disassemble your laptop, take that HDD out and plug it in with a SATA to USB or a 2.5 inch hard drive box for testing. If you don't have either of those thing, you can get a different 2.5 inch HDD to see if it was the old HDD or motherboard issue.