Hi, I am new to Fedora 36 desktop after much tinkering I am able to install Fedora 36 and dual boot using Grub2win along side with Windows 10 on a SSD drive (Disk-1).
Everything was fine until one day without warning I have difficulty booting into Fedora 36 smoothly It takes almost 20 minutes to boot-up and after several attempts. I have tried booting the same into Windows 10.and it takes a long time.

When I finally managed booting into Fedora 36 desktop or Windows 10, I noticed all my primary & logical partition in Disk 2 (HDD- 1TB] is no longer visible and is inaccessible.

At this time of writing is my 2nd day of working on the desktop although the booting time has improved it takes 2-minutes each time.

I have checked the Disk-2 using Aomei Partition Assistant and it reported that the said Disk-2 is fully blank without any split partition and the
format is unknown.Whilst Disk-1 (SSD) is fine with all the working partition intact.

What has happened to my internal HDD?.
Please help.
Thanks

first of all you need to check cables and connection if everything is ok.
Next you need to run smartdisk (or something similar on windows) to check that disk. Do not try to fix it or write anything into it before that, because you may destroy your data on it. Come back with the result.

<<Thanks for your response, I have done as advised -checking the cables & connectors and tried checking the disk using ms-win chdsk but was unable to do so - as Disk-2 does not show any drive letters -to identify.
(pls note Disk-2 is refer to as Disk-1 in the screen shot)
Kindly refer to the attached screen shot.
Does it mean my drive-1 Basic mbr is unrecoverable?
What must I as I do, to recover my data in it.
thanks

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Yes, it looks like. Probably I would try it in another box.

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