Today, I was just watching some movies, listening some music, working on a school project, the usual.
Suddenly Windos freezes and no music is being played anymore.
I found out my 1TB disk on which I have my music, was gone from the system. Not recognized in the partition manager, not recognized by Windows nor Linux. Only the BIOS knew the disk was there.
After opening the case (And vacuuming all the dust out, which was badly needed too), I connected the disk to another SATA port, and all is fine again.
Was really strange and frustrating to see a complete terabyte of data appear and disappear.
Anyone else had any experience like this?
My specs are in my sig, maybe you recognize an issue like this with one of the hardware.
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Harddisk disappearing
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, Nov 19 2009 05:28 PM
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 05:28 PM
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 02:34 PM
SATA plug shorted because of dust in a wrong spot? If it works fine on another plug (same controller or another?), I would guess the motherboard plug is causing the issue. Although the BIOS still saw it, that I can't explain...
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 02:53 PM
It works perfectly fine when I plugged it into a different SATA slot. So, yeah, I'm completely like 
It works again now, was wondering if anybody had ever experienced anything like it.
It works again now, was wondering if anybody had ever experienced anything like it.
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 05:37 PM
are you using partition MAGIC?
Maybe its a "magic" trick
Maybe its a "magic" trick
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 06:54 PM
Never did, I only used the Windows Partitioner to format the disk and assign the drive-letters.
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Posted 21 November 2009 - 08:34 AM
Ok, this new connector-placement for my SECONDARY harddisk, gave me a higher score for my PRIMARY harddisk in the Windows Experience Index!
My computer is strange!
Or Windows 7 is somehow magically improving the speed of SATA-300 busses...
My computer is strange!
Or Windows 7 is somehow magically improving the speed of SATA-300 busses...
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