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Mysterious Vanishing HDD
So I have had a problem recently. One specific drive in my machine keeps disappearing from my computer. I know this could be the sign of a failing drive. I doubt that very much for one good reason. Restarting my computer brings it back. The problem often happens after I have had this machine up for a couple of days without a restart.
I don't use sleep or hibernate or tell anything to turn off after X amount of time. I have also never had this issue before until recently.
The only new piece of hardware I can think of is my external 2tb drive.
Other recent issues involve a delay when I go to empty my trash bin or access a drive in my computer. Seems like if the system goes idle for a while I have a couple second delay at which time i hear the external drive kick on. I believe this is related to the power saving options of the 2tb drive though and at this time I am not finding a solid link between these 2 weird happenings.
Anyone have any suggestions of what may be happening here?