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Data harddrive disappeared from windows explorer out of no where

eric95204
By eric95204
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I have a 240gb boot ssd and a 3tb seagate hard drive (yes i know they are infamous for failing, but its been going strong for 3years) and when i was listening to some music i had on the 3tb, the music suddenly stopped and vlc gave me errors. then i notice in windows explorer that the hard drive was no longer appearing. I restarted my computer and it still didnt appear. After opening my pc i moved around all of the sata connector and booted it up and i worked. The 3tb was showing up again and the s.m.a.r.t. data was saying that it was still running at 100% with no  issues. What could had happen? SHould i be worried and backup my drive or was it just noting  

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Take a look in the bios, see if it shows up there.

Main gaming pc: Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh Performance - Ryzen 5 5600X - MSI GTX1080Ti Armor - AMD Wraith Spire RGB - ASUS TUF Gaming B550 Plus - Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x8GB 3200MHz - 500GB M.2 (and a few other drives)

 

Gaming laptop: ASUS GL552VW: i7 6700HQ - GTX960M 2GB - 8GB DDR4 2166Mhz RAM - 1TB 7200RPM HDD

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may have had a loose connection on the sata cable 

 

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