lost access to my sata drive

[Guest sgopus]

I have been able to make regular backups via an external sata drive, but

lately I've lost my access to the drive.

the bios says it's there, but windows takes forever to boot when the drive

is connected, not sure why, it usually doesn't take that long, I think one of

the recent windows updates has messed up my sata drivers, has anybody else

experienced this?

Fortunetly the drive is also USB, it just takes loads longer to access the

data.

[Guest sgopus]

RE: lost access to my sata drive

 

problem resolved, it was a bad sata data cable, my cats had been using it to

practice pouncing on snakes, and had chewed into the cable, thankfully I had

another sata data cable to try. it works.

 

"sgopus" wrote:

> I have been able to make regular backups via an external sata drive, but

> lately I've lost my access to the drive.

> the bios says it's there, but windows takes forever to boot when the drive

> is connected, not sure why, it usually doesn't take that long, I think one of

> the recent windows updates has messed up my sata drivers, has anybody else

> experienced this?

> Fortunetly the drive is also USB, it just takes loads longer to access the

> data.