Hello,
Have a system with a SSD/HDD combo. 2 or 3 months ago, I reinstalled Windows 7 to be purely on my SSD rather than splitting up the system and boot partitions. This allowed me to change my hard drive to GPT and use all 3TB. Not sure if that's related but I figure it's worth bringing up.
The computer has been running fine minus a few random issues here and there. Today, I went to launch a program formerly installed on my HDD and was told the .exe was missing. Sure enough, the drive was not listed under the Computer tab. I don't have an extra SATA cable lying around but I did switch the connections with my CD ROM and verified that the drive still didn't work and the CD ROM did. The HDD also spins when initially powered up.
If the drive is dead, that's fine by me. I don't see what else it could be but I figured I'd check in here.
also, my SSD is randomly set to read only, so that's annoying. Haven't investigated that (it totally was read/write before!) but also wanted to bring it up in case it is a red flag.
Thanks!
Have a system with a SSD/HDD combo. 2 or 3 months ago, I reinstalled Windows 7 to be purely on my SSD rather than splitting up the system and boot partitions. This allowed me to change my hard drive to GPT and use all 3TB. Not sure if that's related but I figure it's worth bringing up.
The computer has been running fine minus a few random issues here and there. Today, I went to launch a program formerly installed on my HDD and was told the .exe was missing. Sure enough, the drive was not listed under the Computer tab. I don't have an extra SATA cable lying around but I did switch the connections with my CD ROM and verified that the drive still didn't work and the CD ROM did. The HDD also spins when initially powered up.
If the drive is dead, that's fine by me. I don't see what else it could be but I figured I'd check in here.
also, my SSD is randomly set to read only, so that's annoying. Haven't investigated that (it totally was read/write before!) but also wanted to bring it up in case it is a red flag.
Thanks!
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