HDD Disappearing

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JustinSane

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My drive that I store my big media files on is disappearing every now and then from My Computer. I have to reboot in order to get it to show up again. I checked the Event Viewer/System log and this is what I found.

The device 'WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 ATA Device' (IDE\DiskWDC_WD5000AAKS-00YGA0___________________12.01C02\5&148bbd8&0&1.0.0) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

Is it dieing on me?
 
Either it's dieing, you have a bad SATA port, or a cable that isn't snuggly connected. I had this problem with my SSD once, but I changed the cord(came with motherboard) to one that had a metal clip and everything has been fine since.
 
Western Digital Green drives are great for media. I've had a 1.5TB in my main system for the last year with no problems. I also have 4 1TB Green drives for a media server which is on 24/7 and has been great for the last 4 months.
 
I had this problem with my 1TB WD Green; it would always appear after a reboot but if I put the computer to sleep it would not show up when the computer woke back up. The drive itself was fine otherwise; no errors or anything. I read of similar issues with other Green drives; I didn't know that it affected the Black (and this may not even be the same issue).

Does it disappear when the computer is on, or only after coming back from sleep state or hibernation?
 
imyourzero said:
I had this problem with my 1TB WD Green; it would always appear after a reboot but if I put the computer to sleep it would not show up when the computer woke back up. The drive itself was fine otherwise; no errors or anything. I read of similar issues with other Green drives; I didn't know that it affected the Black (and this may not even be the same issue).

Does it disappear when the computer is on, or only after coming back from sleep state or hibernation?
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Yea it disappears while the computer is on. Sometimes while the drive is being accessed.


DATOptic.Support said:
Try to use a different SATA host port and power connector. your problem may relate to these
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SATA host port? What do you mean by that? I'll try the power, didn't even think of that.

Also new question: What happens if my Boot Manager is on the dying drive? When I switched the SATA cable and port I got a BOOTMGR is missing at start up. I had to go in and set the dying drive as the first boot device in order to get the message to go away. If I do end up replacing the drive am I gonna have to reinstall windows because the boot manager is on the bad drive?

Thanks guys.
 
You may need to change the BIOS SATA mode to Enhance (AHCI)

It seems the MB SATA port did not wake-up. It can cause by:

1) SATA ports set @ IDE /Compatible mode
2) MB BIOS needs to update


JustinSane: SATA host ports are Mother board or host controller SATA ports
 
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