Hard drive going bad?

[insane111]

I'm having an odd detection issue with one of my storage drives.

Basically, every time I do a normal shutdown and turn it back on, it stops detecting the drive. The only way to get it working again is if I do a cold boot. When I boot up from either a warm or cold shutdown, it sits there and takes ~60 seconds to detect (or not detect) the drive. Normal system restarts are perfectly fine, it goes through the post process instantly like it should. The drive is about 2 years old, and only started doing this recently.

I tried swapping cables/sata ports, but that did nothing so I'm fairly sure it's the hard drives problem. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a remedy for this. Besides this issue the drive still seems to be working perfectly fine, benchmarks are still pretty much the same as when I bought it.

 

[drescherjm]

Install CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says about the drive. If it says Good the drive probably is not the issue. If it says anything other than Good please post a screen shot of the app somewhere and link here.

The drive is about 2 years old, and only started doing this recently.

Age or drive usage are not always the only reasons for a drive to die. A drive can show up DOA or last 7 years and there is a chance of it dieing any time in between.

 

[insane111]

Thanks, it does say good. Maybe I should try it in my downstairs PC and see if the issue persists.

But I did try swapping the cables with my other storage drive, which is the exact same model with no luck. That's why I'm skeptical about it not being the drives problem.