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SOLVED!: Second drive disappeared after Mint reinstall
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Check cables. Verify whether or not it's even spinning up. Try a different sata port. Try a different power plug. Try the drive in another machine.
Yes, thank you for this, motivated me to pull the drive only to find out to my confusion that it wasn't there... mostly likely I was mounting a partition this entire time. Good news is that I have n 8-year-old 4TB and and 12-year-old 3TB I might as well consume.