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Viper5420
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So a couple days ago the D drive in my laptop randomly stopped working. I restarted my computer and it worked fine for a while, then my computer stopped detecting it again. Earlier today my laptop stopped detecting it all together even after restarting so i pulled it out and started testing the hard drive to see if it died. When i plugged it into another computer i have it worked fine and never stopped working. So i put it back into my laptop, it worked fine the first boot, then when i went to start it again it stopped working again. It wont show up in bios on my laptop either. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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6 minutes ago, Viper5420 said:

So a couple days ago the D drive in my laptop randomly stopped working. I restarted my computer and it worked fine for a while, then my computer stopped detecting it again. Earlier today my laptop stopped detecting it all together even after restarting so i pulled it out and started testing the hard drive to see if it died. When i plugged it into another computer i have it worked fine and never stopped working. So i put it back into my laptop, it worked fine the first boot, then when i went to start it again it stopped working again. It wont show up in bios on my laptop either. Any help would be appreciated.

 

If you have a second drive on hand, connect it to your laptop using the same port/slot you are using your current D Drive. Do this to check to make sure that the port/slot isn't the problem.

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12 hours ago, Server_42 said:

If you have a second drive on hand, connect it to your laptop using the same port/slot you are using your current D Drive. Do this to check to make sure that the port/slot isn't the problem.

I know its either a windows problem, a problem with the ribbon cable going yo the drive, or the port on the motherboard. Or just something with that drive. I will look into using a second drive I have to see if it shows. However I know the drive isn't broken as it works fine in another computer I tested it on

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On 10/15/2020 at 1:44 AM, Server_42 said:

If you have a second drive on hand, connect it to your laptop using the same port/slot you are using your current D Drive. Do this to check to make sure that the port/slot isn't the problem.

So another drive also doesn't work. However it is also showing up in bios. It just refuses to show up in windows.

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2 hours ago, Server_42 said:

Try checking the drivers for the drives. See if that works.

So I have reinstalled windows. The drive is still showing up in BIOS correctly, however in windows under device manager it shows as Unkown Device under Disk Drives, and show thr correct drivers. However when i got into Disk Management it ask me to format the drive, when i go to it says "A device which does not exist was specified".

When my laptop goes into sleep, and when I take it out the drive will show up as D drive in file explorer and have the correct name in Devuce manager. However it doesn't give a capacity in file explorer, and Disk Management won't load at all. Also i cant access the D drive.

 Its almost like its a phantom drive, to say.

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10 hours ago, Viper5420 said:

So I have reinstalled windows. The drive is still showing up in BIOS correctly, however in windows under device manager it shows as Unkown Device under Disk Drives, and show thr correct drivers. However when i got into Disk Management it ask me to format the drive, when i go to it says "A device which does not exist was specified".

When my laptop goes into sleep, and when I take it out the drive will show up as D drive in file explorer and have the correct name in Devuce manager. However it doesn't give a capacity in file explorer, and Disk Management won't load at all. Also i cant access the D drive.

 Its almost like its a phantom drive, to say.

Did you try going into disk management, Action (upper left), and "Rescan Disks". This should allow the system to perform a re-identification for all connected  disks. Let me know if that works.

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On 10/15/2020 at 8:35 AM, Viper5420 said:

So a couple days ago the D drive in my laptop randomly stopped working. I restarted my computer and it worked fine for a while, then my computer stopped detecting it again. Earlier today my laptop stopped detecting it all together even after restarting so i pulled it out and started testing the hard drive to see if it died. When i plugged it into another computer i have it worked fine and never stopped working. So i put it back into my laptop, it worked fine the first boot, then when i went to start it again it stopped working again. It wont show up in bios on my laptop either. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Its probably the cable that connects to the drive. try to see if you can use a different cable

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4 minutes ago, Elad.Evron said:

Its probably the cable that connects to the drive. try to see if you can use a different cable

I think that they said it was in a laptop. So, we should try software options first, in case it is not the cable or if it hard to find or replace the cable in their particular laptop.

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14 minutes ago, Elad.Evron said:

Its probably the cable that connects to the drive. try to see if you can use a different cable

So the drive is in my laptop and I dont have a secons cable for it. Also I wouldn't think the cable woukd just work sometimes especially when I havent touched it before this problem started.

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1 minute ago, Server_42 said:

I think that they said it was in a laptop. So, we should try software options first, in case it is not the cable or if it hard to find or replace the cable in their particular laptop.

I'm fairly certain its a windows problem. I just don't know what wouod be causing windows to do this

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37 minutes ago, Server_42 said:

Did you try going into disk management, Action (upper left), and "Rescan Disks". This should allow the system to perform a re-identification for all connected  disks. Let me know if that works.

 

1 minute ago, Viper5420 said:

I'm fairly certain its a windows problem. I just don't know what wouod be causing windows to do this

Did you try to Rescan the Disk in disk management?

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20 minutes ago, Viper5420 said:

So the drive is in my laptop and I dont have a secons cable for it. Also I wouldn't think the cable woukd just work sometimes especially when I havent touched it before this problem started.

If the head of the cable is pnly half working it could happen, you said the drive worked fine in a different PC so thats the only thing I see..... 

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22 minutes ago, Server_42 said:

I think that they said it was in a laptop. So, we should try software options first, in case it is not the cable or if it hard to find or replace the cable in their particular laptop.

Well usually I would say your rught but if your PC (any computer for that matter) doesnt ditect a drive and the all of the hardware is good then the sofware problem is on the bios level, windows doesnt tauch the bio's drive detection software and a bio problem is much worse then a broken cable. 

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25 minutes ago, Viper5420 said:

So the drive is in my laptop and I dont have a secons cable for it. Also I wouldn't think the cable woukd just work sometimes especially when I havent touched it before this problem started.

Try to run the drive in a different PC for a couple of days to see if the problem returns 

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3 hours ago, Elad.Evron said:

Well usually I would say your rught but if your PC (any computer for that matter) doesnt ditect a drive and the all of the hardware is good then the sofware problem is on the bios level, windows doesnt tauch the bio's drive detection software and a bio problem is much worse then a broken cable. 

So bios shows the drive. And windows shows there is an unknown drive under device manager. Also when i first go into disk manager it wants me to initialize the drive, but comes back with the error "The Device Specified Does Not Exist" or somrthing similar to that. And if I refresh the it doesn't show. Like windows detects it on first boot, then forgets about it when windows is fully loaded.

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1 minute ago, Viper5420 said:

So bios shows the drive. And windows shows there is an unknown drive under device manager. Also when i first go into disk manager it wants me to initialize the drive, but comes back with the error "The Device Specified Does Not Exist" or somrthing similar to that. And if I refresh the it doesn't show. Like windows detects it on first boot, then forgets about it when windows is fully loaded.

Did you try the Rescan Disk in disk maganement? or Have you been unable to get past the "The Device Specified Does Not Exist" error?

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15 minutes ago, Server_42 said:

Did you try the Rescan Disk in disk maganement? or Have you been unable to get past the "The Device Specified Does Not Exist" error?

So when I rescan it dissappear. Like I ssid its like windows detects it, then stops

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