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Strange issue.

 

I have 4 internal storage devices connected to my PC. One 500GB M.2 as boot, a disk drive, and two other 1TB SATA HDDs, one with 2 partitions. Every once and a while, the two HDDs will disappear, as well as the disk drive, even in device manager. The only way to fix it is to click on "Scan for hardware changes" in device manager. Then they show up, and after a while (Usually after sleeping the PC) they disappear again.

 

How to fix??

 

All help appreciated,

 

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11 minutes ago, King_of_Oz said:

Strange issue.

 

I have 4 internal storage devices connected to my PC. One 500GB M.2 as boot, a disk drive, and two other 1TB SATA HDDs, one with 2 partitions. Every once and a while, the two HDDs will disappear, as well as the disk drive, even in device manager. The only way to fix it is to click on "Scan for hardware changes" in device manager. Then they show up, and after a while (Usually after sleeping the PC) they disappear again.

 

How to fix??

 

All help appreciated,

 

-King_of_Oz

Here's some information from your manual:

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Make sure that no drive is occupying SATA 0 on your motherboard. Though it claims the port is disabled, some motherboards do not fully disable the ports they claim to disable.

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My first suggestions would be to disable any power management related stuff, like not turning hard drive off if it idles for 5 minutes or something like that.

In Windows 7, it's control panel > power options > high performance plan (or whatever you have) > change plan settings > choose advanced power settings 

In windows 10 it may be slightly different location, but find the power profile / plan place and you can find the options from there.

 

I may suggest changing the actual power cable that comes from the power supply, to use different sata power cables, though i doubt it's related to power supply since you say they show up again when you scan for hardware changes, which mean hard drives respond right away to commands coming in through the sata cables.

 

Check in bios if you have sata set on AHCI mode (which should be), and if the problems continue, check and see if you have some sort of sata plug and play option and if it's enable set it to off, or if it's set to on/enabled , turn it off.

 

 

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