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  • Failing hard disk ?

    From scbs29@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 18 12:04:50 2024
    Hello all
    I have 3 internal hard discs in my pc.
    1, 500Gb SSD system disk (C:)
    2. 2 TB SATA for programs and data (D:)
    3. SATA disk for data, reported by AOMEI PArtition Assistant and Disk Management as 1.5 Tb (E:)

    Suddenly over the last 2 or 3 days this disk E seems to dusappear and is not reported in any disk management
    orogram. When I first boot up the disk is present and can be accessed as normal. After a while, however, it
    disappears from any reprting program.
    When the disk is present CrystalDiskInfo reports its status as Good and Device Manager reports that the device
    is working properly.

    Am I correct in thinking that the disk is disappearing because the problem means that it is showing signs of
    failkure ? Is this one of the signs of failuer ? If so, does it mean imminent failure ?

    I would be grateful for any advice.
    TIA
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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 18 12:06:21 2024
    On 11/18/24 12:04, scbs29 wrote:
    Hello all
    I have 3 internal hard discs in my pc.
    1, 500Gb SSD system disk (C:)
    2. 2 TB SATA for programs and data (D:)
    3. SATA disk for data, reported by AOMEI PArtition Assistant and Disk Management as 1.5 Tb (E:)

    Suddenly over the last 2 or 3 days this disk E seems to dusappear and is not reported in any disk management
    orogram. When I first boot up the disk is present and can be accessed as normal. After a while, however, it
    disappears from any reprting program.
    When the disk is present CrystalDiskInfo reports its status as Good and Device Manager reports that the device
    is working properly.

    Am I correct in thinking that the disk is disappearing because the problem means that it is showing signs of
    failkure ? Is this one of the signs of failuer ? If so, does it mean imminent failure ?

    I would be grateful for any advice.
    TIA

    Try changing the SATA cable.

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  • From scbs29@21:1/5 to Pancho on Mon Nov 18 12:29:44 2024
    Thanks, will try as soon as I get chance

    On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:06:21 +0000, Pancho <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11/18/24 12:04, scbs29 wrote:
    Hello all
    I have 3 internal hard discs in my pc.
    1, 500Gb SSD system disk (C:)
    2. 2 TB SATA for programs and data (D:)
    3. SATA disk for data, reported by AOMEI PArtition Assistant and Disk Management as 1.5 Tb (E:)

    Suddenly over the last 2 or 3 days this disk E seems to dusappear and is not reported in any disk management
    orogram. When I first boot up the disk is present and can be accessed as normal. After a while, however, it
    disappears from any reprting program.
    When the disk is present CrystalDiskInfo reports its status as Good and Device Manager reports that the device
    is working properly.

    Am I correct in thinking that the disk is disappearing because the problem means that it is showing signs of
    failkure ? Is this one of the signs of failuer ? If so, does it mean imminent failure ?

    I would be grateful for any advice.
    TIA

    Try changing the SATA cable.

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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 18 17:18:25 2024
    On 11/18/24 12:29, scbs29 wrote:
    Thanks, will try as soon as I get chance


    I'm not saying it is the SATA cable, just that it might be, and it is
    easy to check. Just swap the SATA cables in disks 2 and 3. Or better
    still put the disk in a different machine.

    Otherwise, it could be the power supply, motherboard or disk controller.
    It isn't the standard old age bad blocks you would see on a failing HDD
    and for mechanical failure I would expect to see in S.M.A.R.T.

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  • From scbs29@21:1/5 to Pancho on Fri Nov 22 08:09:45 2024
    Thankyou for your reply
    After posting my last essage, however, the problem has not reoccurred.
    Could have been a temporary glitch, but I will keep check on it and see if
    it happens again.
    Thanks again

    On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:18:25 +0000, Pancho <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11/18/24 12:29, scbs29 wrote:
    Thanks, will try as soon as I get chance


    I'm not saying it is the SATA cable, just that it might be, and it is
    easy to check. Just swap the SATA cables in disks 2 and 3. Or better
    still put the disk in a different machine.

    Otherwise, it could be the power supply, motherboard or disk controller.
    It isn't the standard old age bad blocks you would see on a failing HDD
    and for mechanical failure I would expect to see in S.M.A.R.T.



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  • From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 7 11:35:41 2025
    On 22/11/2024 08:09, scbs29 wrote:
    Thankyou for your reply
    After posting my last essage, however, the problem has not reoccurred.
    Could have been a temporary glitch, but I will keep check on it and see if
    it happens again.
    Thanks again

    Make sure you don't have any data on it you can't replace.

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