Can't see hard drive

[clm9944]

I'm having the same problem with my maxtor SATA 2.... has been going on for a couple months now. When I continuously shut my computer on and off, it eventually sees the hard drive. I have no idea what it is...

 

clm9944 is referring to this thread.

Edited by RandyL

[RandyL]

It sounds to me like the hard drive is failing.

[clm9944]

Thanx for moving my post, wasn't sure where to put it. :)

I think you are right, it probably is failing but everything the previous poster said happened to me. I also had a power failure, they are common where I live. I have a APC battery backup which shut my computer down and thats when it started happening. I went to maxtor and downloaded their diagnostic and it found 2 minor problems in the registry, fixed it and all was fine. Few days later the hard drive was missing... thats a shame as my hard drive is less than a year old because my 2 year old hard drive quit on me. I find it odd that 2 hard drives are failing in such a short period of time. I have another computer that is 9 years old that still uses the same off brand hard drive with no problems.

[Dalo Harkin]

drives can just go at any time - I had a brand new one delivered and that was bust - depends on lots of things - if they are slightly knoocked or exposed to static.