One of my SSDs randomly disappears sometimes

[authoritah]

Problem:

One of my 3 hard drives randomly disappears when windows is running. When I restart the PC it doesn't get fixed and I'm stuck on the Post screen and now somestimes the BIOS also doesn't read the third disk. If I shut down the PC and start it up again it gets fixed and later sometime it'll randomly disappear.

Setup:

CPU: i5 3330
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H
RAM: 8GB DDR3 2x4GB
GPU: nVIDIA 630 GT 2GB
OS: Windows 8.1
Disk 1: Kingston SV300S37A120G 120 GB has the OS installed on it
Disk 2: Seagate ST500DM005 500 GB has games installed, game setups, movies and other stuff
Disk 3: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB has a large PostgreSQL database and some other files. This is the disk that disappears


More Info

The problem started after I installed the Disk 3, Samsung SSD. Before that I had the Kingston SSD with the OS and Seagate HDD and everything was fine.

I have updated my BIOS, I have tried reattaching the cables I have made sure the Samsung SSD has the latest firmware, nothing has helped so far.

PS: The Sata Controllers in the BIOS are set to IDE and all my drives have MBR partition style. Does any of this make a difference?



No idea what to do next and how to fix this problem.

 

[authoritah]

Bump

 

[Manish Tewari]

Problem:

One of my 3 hard drives randomly disappears when windows is running. When I restart the PC it doesn't get fixed and I'm stuck on the Post screen and now somestimes the BIOS also doesn't read the third disk. If I shut down the PC and start it up again it gets fixed and later sometime it'll randomly disappear.

Setup:

CPU: i5 3330
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H
RAM: 8GB DDR3 2x4GB
GPU: nVIDIA 630 GT 2GB
OS: Windows 8.1
Disk 1: Kingston SV300S37A120G 120 GB has the OS installed on it
Disk 2: Seagate ST500DM005 500 GB has games installed, game setups, movies and other stuff
Disk 3: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB has a large PostgreSQL database and some other files. This is the disk that disappears


More Info

The problem started after I installed the Disk 3, Samsung SSD. Before that I had the Kingston SSD with the OS and Seagate HDD and everything was fine.

I have updated my BIOS, I have tried reattaching the cables I have made sure the Samsung SSD has the latest firmware, nothing has helped so far.

PS: The Sata Controllers in the BIOS are set to IDE and all my drives have MBR partition style. Does any of this make a difference?



No idea what to do next and how to fix this problem.

Welcome to the team, Try to set SSD as boot priority 1 - worked for me.

 

[authoritah]

Problem:

One of my 3 hard drives randomly disappears when windows is running. When I restart the PC it doesn't get fixed and I'm stuck on the Post screen and now somestimes the BIOS also doesn't read the third disk. If I shut down the PC and start it up again it gets fixed and later sometime it'll randomly disappear.

Setup:

CPU: i5 3330
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H
RAM: 8GB DDR3 2x4GB
GPU: nVIDIA 630 GT 2GB
OS: Windows 8.1
Disk 1: Kingston SV300S37A120G 120 GB has the OS installed on it
Disk 2: Seagate ST500DM005 500 GB has games installed, game setups, movies and other stuff
Disk 3: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB has a large PostgreSQL database and some other files. This is the disk that disappears


More Info

The problem started after I installed the Disk 3, Samsung SSD. Before that I had the Kingston SSD with the OS and Seagate HDD and everything was fine.

I have updated my BIOS, I have tried reattaching the cables I have made sure the Samsung SSD has the latest firmware, nothing has helped so far.

PS: The Sata Controllers in the BIOS are set to IDE and all my drives have MBR partition style. Does any of this make a difference?



No idea what to do next and how to fix this problem.

Welcome to the team, Try to set SSD as boot priority 1 - worked for me.

If I set the SSD as boot priority 1 then will my OS load? As I mentioned in the thread, the problem is that disk 3 disappears, the OS is in disk 1 which runs all fine.

 

[Manish Tewari]

i understand that buddy and to answer your question, PCs automatically detect a bootable disc(most of the time), i do not see a reason it wont

Try it, if it does'nt work you can can always reverse the order in bios.

worth a read: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/937251

 

[authoritah]

The problem got fixed by changing the sata controllers from IDE to AHCI. All good now.

 

[Manish Tewari]

request an update in 48 hrs ... to confirm on solution ..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This was the right fix great job.
Sata controllers from IDE to AHCI.

 

[GarGuy3]

This was the right fix great job.
Sata controllers from IDE to AHCI.

What does this mean, i have the same problem and dont know how to fix it. Please help How to you switch from IDE to AHCI and what will it do?