Drive - Now I see her! Now I don't.

[Threepints]

Hi guys,

Some advice please. I'm running a Samsung F2 1TB Eco drive as my second drive for data storage.

Back in August my PC kept rebooting itself intermittently. I traced it (eventually) to a failing PSU. This I replaced. I now have an issue with the above drive. On boot up it starts up fine, can be seen by my OS & accessed. But then it just drops off & disappears.

I've used Seagates SeaTools for Windows to carry out checks on the disk & all comes back as okay. Also running a health check with Defraggler shows the disk as being healthy. I've pushed in all the connections (umpteen times) so I don't think its this either.

Short of a failing disk, any ideas?

[Kymmy]

Check the cabling and also try it in another port.. But drives dropping in/out tend to be having temp problems if the connections are OK, try a SMART reading program to check the temp of the drive. (something like EVEREST will do the job)

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Also if faulty it'll probably be under warranty (24 months on Samsung HDDs)

[damien c]

I had a similar problem and it was a faulty chipset on the board (Gigabyte).

I proved it was that by trying it on different sata ports and then on a different motherboard, and on the other board (Asus) the problem never happend.

What I found was the drive was there on boot but, as soon as I started to write or read from the drive it vanished until I rebooted.

Took the board back and got it sent back to Gigabyte who confirmed the chipset was faulty, and they sent it back as fixed but the problem was still happening so won't be buying another from them again.

[Threepints]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Check the cabling and also try it in another port.. But drives dropping in/out tend to be having temp problems if the connections are OK, try a SMART reading program to check the temp of the drive. (something like EVEREST will do the job)

---------- Post added at 12:56 ---------- Previous post was at 12:53 ----------

Also if faulty it'll probably be under warranty (24 months on Samsung HDDs)

I've carried out all those tests prior to my OP. All fine.

---------- Post added at 10:34 ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 ----------

Originally Posted by damien c

I had a similar problem and it was a faulty chipset on the board (Gigabyte).

I proved it was that by trying it on different sata ports and then on a different motherboard, and on the other board (Asus) the problem never happend.

What I found was the drive was there on boot but, as soon as I started to write or read from the drive it vanished until I rebooted.

Took the board back and got it sent back to Gigabyte who confirmed the chipset was faulty, and they sent it back as fixed but the problem was still happening so won't be buying another from them again.

That's a possibility I guess as my PC is now rather old (an Athlon 3700+ processor)!