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Secondary Hard Drives Randomly Disappear
I've had this issue for months now. I chatted with tec support for my motherboard and the guy wanted me to RMA it. I have searched the internet high and low for an answer. Here is the issue:
I have two internal hard drives I use for media. A few months ago both would randomly go away and the only way I could get them back was to reboot. I tried changing cables, swapping sata ports, etc. Nothing worked. I updated bios, made sure all hard drives had current firmware, etc. None of that solved it either.
I ran Sea Tools on my old drives and one came back with an error. So, I purchased the two drives listed in my profile. Set them to GPT and formatted. Swapped all my data over and all seemed to be okay. That lasted a week. Now one of the two drives is randomly going away.
This morning, it seems my SSD boot drive didn't appear during the post as I had the message to insert bootable media blah blah blah. I hit the reboot button and up popped Windows.
Edit: I also changed power settings to never allow the hard drives to shut off. That didn't work either.
I tried all of the software related fixes to no avail. I tried the bios/firmware fixes no go. I replaced old drives with new. Still happening. I really don't want to RMA the board if I don't have to. If anyone has found a fix for this issue I will be eternally grateful.
System:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
AMD FX 8350
Asus Crosshair V Formula Z
XFX R9 280X BE GPU
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz DDR3 9-9-9-24 RAM
250GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD (boot)
3TB Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 HDD (media. 2 drives)
Corsair HX 1050W PSU
Last edited by Archi; 08 Mar 2015 at 09:21.