HDD and possible SDD disconnecting themselves?

[Malli Karim]

So my friend has this problem that no matter what he does ( replaces motherboard, plays without video card etc, replaces cables etc ) his computer locks up/freezes w/e u wanna call it pretty regularly.

I noticed that his HDD sometimes goes missing from My Computer out of nowhere and after a restart or a replug of the cables ( which was been done numerous times ) it works normaly until it happens again. Also when they disconnect they do the sound like you are disconnecting a USB drive and they are also listed under Safely Remove Drive options. Though I heard this is more about the motherboard allowing hot swaping,

Is it possible that his SSD is doing the same thing as his HDD and that's why he has freezes? Since if the SSD with the OS on it would disconnect that should in theory cause a system freeze. Yes drivers are all perfectly installed, yes there is no junk/malware/temp files, temperatures are fine, everything is perfectly fine besides tho damn freeeze. I even updated the bios for god's sake and it still persists. This happens with all the modern windows aswell as we tried 7/8/8.1 and it does the same.

Pls help.!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Download and run Seatools for windows. Run the short DST and the long generic.

Try connecting the drive or drives to different headers. If you're using one SATA cable, try using a different cable or separate cables for each drive. Make sure the SATA connectors are COMPLETELY plugged in. I've seen more drive problems from cables that were not FULLY seated than you can imagine and every one of those cases the OP insisted they were fully seated into the drive and the motherboard header until they rechecked them. Do this first, then run Seatools.