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Second HDD rapidly reappearing/disappearing with autorun/format dialog
OS: win7 professional 64bit
While reformatting due to bit rot I installed a second hdd. It worked fine for the last few months but just recently started behaving strangely. When browsing in explorer after not having been there for a bit it would take a while to load but then become responsive then behave normally, and shortly after that the drive started disappearing periodically even though it still showed in bios.
In the last day or so the disappearing became more problematic and it stopped reappearing after logging out. Finally just now it's started reappearing and disappearing rapidly with an Autorun popup and, on some boot cycles, a "you need to format this drive" dialog. For the few seconds it's visible everything is normal, but then it will disappear and the cycle repeats.
I've never gotten anything like this before, and every hdd I've ever lost gave the click of death before dying so if that's what's happening it's caught me by surprise.
Last edited by Shadowex3; 14 Mar 2014 at 19:43. Reason: lost paragraphs