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[SOLVED] Hard Drive Disappears
Drive is a Maxtor 7L300S0
This is not the same problem as the "Have you "lost" a hard drive or partition in your computer?" thread.
My SATA drive disappears at completely random times. It shows in the BIOS; Windows sees it after reboot, but with seemingly no reason at all the drive will disappear. It doesn't show up in Explorer, Device Manager or Disk Management. I have tried switching with new a SATA cable, and settings in the BIOS are okay.
A few months ago, I was having the same problem, which led to corrupt files, damaged sectors, etc. Eventually the drive started the stereotypical sounds of a HDD about to fail, then finally death. I got a replacement drive from Seagate, and it worked fine for awhile until just around this week it has started again.
Here is my PC Wizard Summary
<<< System Summary >>>
> Manufacturer : Custom Computers by Jerry
> Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800-E
> Chipset : Intel i865PE
> Processor : Intel Pentium 4 @ 3000 MHz
> Physical Memory : 1152 MB
> Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9600 XT (V350)
> Hard Disk : Maxtor (164 GB)
> Hard Disk : Maxtor (300 GB)
> CD-Rom Drive : LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S
> DVD-Rom Drive : LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1213S
> CD-Rom Drive : MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000
> Network Card : Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd) Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
> DirectX : Version 9.0c (March 2005)
Full report in attachment.
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