Windows 7 stops detecting 2nd hard drive

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This has happened to me 2 times today and I think one time last night, and I don't know why.

I have my 640GB HDD which has my OS partition, and I have my 1TB WD HDD which has games and other things. For some reason that hard drive and both partitions disappears from windows. Rebooting fixes it, but I don't want to have to do that who knows how many times a day.

EDIT: I Think it was a prob with my sata cord. I moved it and plunged it into a diff sata slot and I changed my power management and it is still going ok...so prob solved!?
 
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Read this and thought maybe you should check yur cables or try a different port. Glad it is working out.
Fabe
 

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thefabe said:
Read this and thought maybe you should check yur cables or try a different port. Glad it is working out.
Fabe
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Well I only did it because I left a SATA cable from my old 250GB Hard drive after I got the data out. I really have no idea how that could have happened out of nowhere. I guess it was because the cable was to close to the GPU?
 

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If you aren't already using them, I would recommend latching SATA cables. These click and lock the connectors into place (unlike the non-latching type, which tend to come loose easily).
 

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Dwarf said:
If you aren't already using them, I would recommend latching SATA cables. These click and lock the connectors into place (unlike the non-latching type, which tend to come loose easily).
Click to expand...
2 of my drives already have them I just need to switch out the one for my 2nd HDD.
 

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custom build
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Windows 7 Pro X64
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AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition
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MSI 870A-G54 (FX)
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CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
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ASUS EN9800GT HB/HTDI/512M GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDD
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Realtek ALC892
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Viewsonic 19' 16:10
Screen Resolution
1680X1050
Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA,
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM SATA
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Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU 500W ATX 12V
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New CPU, Motherboard, and Ram installed 02/2012

Logitech G35 Headset
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