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Keep losing internal 1tb drive

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transam02

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Just recently my internal tb drive started disappearing from my system. I could restart and still nothing. Whenever I would swap sata ports on the mother board it would show back up. But then I would lose it again. Is the drive going out or is it my motherboard having problems with that big of a drive. I checked the bios version and its up to date. Any help would be appreciated I am stumped on this one.
 
Which board are you using? (You have two systems listed in your sig.) Which particular hard drive are you using?

Have you tried using Windows' Disk Management tools to see whether or not your 1TB drive is visible? (You may need to format the drive using Disk Management to prevent it from disappearing again.)
 
Its the Evga 680i Board, its also a western digital caviar black hard drive. I already did that when I installed the drive. Yea it still doesnt see it in the disk management section.
 
Check the BIOS: Is the BIOS running everything in IDE, SATA, AHCI, or RAID mode?
 
I encountered this issue on my HTPC. Swapping out my SATA cable fixed this issue. Have you tried swapping it out just for testing purposes?
 
Tiraides- I havent checked that yet but I will.l

Chelica- Yea that was the second thing I tried after moving the sata cable to a different port.
 
transam02 said:
Its the Evga 680i Board, its also a western digital caviar black hard drive. I already did that when I installed the drive. Yea it still doesnt see it in the disk management section.
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680i MCP had a data curruption issue, they claimed to have fixed it in firmware, but something like that, a firmware fix?
 
Indeed, was just about to mention that. I'd RMA the board (hopefully you got the -AR model), if a BIOS update or new cable doesnt fix the issue. Also, did you run any tests on the drive? Drive Fitness test perhaps?
 
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