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Did you check the SATA cables? That happened to my old PC and it really gave me trouble because it was only not just disappearing and it made my PC go for the BSOD and apparently corrupted all of my files and actually made me reformat my PC. Try checking your SATA cables.

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I recently installed a 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD in my system and Im using my Seagate 1TB 7200RPM HDD for mass storage. But for some reason, my hard disk suddenly disappears and I have to either restart my system or go to device manager and scan for new hardware for it to show up.

I have run seatools from seagate and also HDtunes, and they both show the drive to be in good condition.

Any suggestions anyone? 

 

My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PV

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Did you check the SATA cables? That happened to my old PC and it really gave me trouble because it was only not just disappearing and it made my PC go for the BSOD and apparently corrupted all of my files and actually made me reformat my PC. Try checking your SATA cables.

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Did you check the SATA cables? That happened to my old PC and it really gave me trouble because it was only not just disappearing and it made my PC go for the BSOD and apparently corrupted all of my files and actually made me reformat my PC. Try checking your SATA cables.

I will try to swap the SATA cables of my SSD with HDD and see what happens. it might take some time to figure out if this is the problem as I need to keep my system running for several hours to make sure the problem is. Will let you know.

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I will try to swap the SATA cables of my SSD with HDD and see what happens. it might take some time to figure out if this is the problem as I need to keep my system running for several hours to make sure the problem is. Will let you know.

Okay okay, Hope that you may fix the problem.

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Changing the SATA cables really did solve the problem.

Thanks a lot. You saved my day

Thank God that saved the problem. No problem dude it would really sucks if you would experience what i had experience unexpected corruption of the OS files in my main drive.Especially when you had not backup your important files. 

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