HDD Disconnecting

[Alef]

My secondary drive, which I store almost all my programs on keeps disconnecting from the system. It can't been seen by the BIOS or the OS unless I restart my computer a few times or I disconnect and reconnect the SATA connector a few times. Starting Steam makes it disconnect from the OS every time and other times it just randomly disconnects after several hours.
 
I have tried switching the power and SATA cables with my other HDD and the problem persists, so its not a cable issue.

 

[Xenift]

Do you have another SATA connection to test with? Like a third SATA port on your motherboard.

[W-L]

My secondary drive, which I store almost all my programs on keeps disconnecting from the system. It can't been seen by the BIOS or the OS unless I restart my computer a few times or I disconnect and reconnect the SATA connector a few times. Starting Steam makes it disconnect from the OS every time and other times it just randomly disconnects after several hours.

 I have tried switching the power and SATA cables with my other HDD and the problem persists, so its not a cable issue.

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With that for sure backup all the important data on that drive immediately, that hard drive looks like it may be reaching the end of it's road soon, 

[Alef]

Do you have another SATA connection to test with? Like a third SATA port on your motherboard.

Tried that, problem persists.

 

 

With that for sure backup all the important data on that drive immediately, that hard drive looks like it may be reaching the end of it's road soon, 

Same though crossed my mind though never backed anything up as its just programs (mostly games) and a backup of some of my important stuff on my NAS. 

 

Is it possible that is keeps trying to read from a bad part of the disk and because it can't read it, it drops? If this is the case, is there a way to mark that section as bad?

 

EDIT: Had it drop once a few months prior and it went away.

[W-L]

Tried that, problem persists.

Same though crossed my mind though never backed anything up as its just programs (mostly games) and a backup of some of my important stuff on my NAS. 

Is it possible that is keeps trying to read from a bad part of the disk and because it can't read it, it drops? If this is the case, is there a way to mark that section as bad?

 

I believe if you run the check disk under tools in the properties it marks off those sectors to not be used again. If things start to get wosrt though then it is probably a sign of the end, HD tune has a good error scanning that shows visually how the drive is doing.

[Alef]

I believe if you run the check disk under tools in the properties it marks off those sectors to not be used again. If things start to get wosrt though then it is probably a sign of the end, HD tune has a good error scanning that shows visually how the drive is doing.

Running the Error-checking feature in windows, seems like its going to take a while, will report back later.

 

EDIT: Running that Error-checking feature in windows helped, it no longer randomly disconnects when doing normal tasks though when I tried running HD Tune the test would get 25% of the way though before disconnecting,  guess I am going to have to replace the disk sooner then I expected.