So I had a sudden issue with my largest HDD last night (1 of 3) where it suddenly gave the error "drive not accessible".
I was a able to see the drive in file explorer and disk management but not open it. A couple of restarts didn't resolve, it showed "unknown device" in device manager and not initialised in disk management. It would not initialise, again saying not accessible.
I've swapped it onto a Sata cable from one of the other drives and it's now reading. Chkdsk shows no errors. I will run the Toshiba disk check later.
I've had issues with the drive not waking from sleep in the past, but only on this system not my other one. My thinking is the Sata cable is dying (how do I test this?) Or the MB Sata controller is faulty (again not sure how to test?). I've noticed one other drive disappearing from file explorer but it comes back (as if it's sleeping). HDD is only a year old but I know it could still have a fault, just the behaviour seems inconsistent with this and tests show no errors.
Does anyone have any further ideas or advice to confirm? All parts should be under warranty. Thanks.
I was a able to see the drive in file explorer and disk management but not open it. A couple of restarts didn't resolve, it showed "unknown device" in device manager and not initialised in disk management. It would not initialise, again saying not accessible.
I've swapped it onto a Sata cable from one of the other drives and it's now reading. Chkdsk shows no errors. I will run the Toshiba disk check later.
I've had issues with the drive not waking from sleep in the past, but only on this system not my other one. My thinking is the Sata cable is dying (how do I test this?) Or the MB Sata controller is faulty (again not sure how to test?). I've noticed one other drive disappearing from file explorer but it comes back (as if it's sleeping). HDD is only a year old but I know it could still have a fault, just the behaviour seems inconsistent with this and tests show no errors.
Does anyone have any further ideas or advice to confirm? All parts should be under warranty. Thanks.