My question is this.
Is there a way of requesting windows re-scan and build fresh picture of connected devices on boot and not use saved settings ?
I have a newish PC. Came with windows 10 pre-installed.
Motherboard Gigabyte B85M-D3H
There are 4 Sata III ports 0,1,2 and 3 with white connectors
All the ports are set up the same way in BIOS :-
Integrated SATA controller enabled
ACHI enabled
All 3 ports enabled
All 3 ports hot swap enabled
I have tried 2 data cables - both worked on port 3
The data cables have clicked home
I have reinstalled windows 10
When hard drive connected to SATA port 3 windows detects and hard drive works correctly and in regular use with data stored.
The drive has been scanned for errors by right click and running error checking
When hard drive connected to SATA port 2 hard drive shows in BIOS but not detected by windows 10
When hard drive reconnected to SATA port 3 windows detects and hard drive works correctly once again.
When hard drive reconnected to SATA port 2 hard drive - shows in BIOS but not detected by windows 10 again
The hard drive does not appear in device manager or disk management
I ran windows troubleshooter but still not detected
I booted from Linux mint with the hard drive still connected to port 2
The hard drive is detected and shows in list of available drives in Linux
Rebooted windows 10
This time the hard drive on port 2 was detected by windows 10
The hard drive appears in device manager and disk management and is working correctly.
My guess is that after a preceeding boot from Linux, Windows is getting triggered to start over and do a full scan of what is connected.
This intermittent issue has happened a number of times with different hard drives and different ports.
My best guess is sometimes windows does not detect connected hard drives at a lower level
as it not carrying out a full scan of what is connected and is making assumptions using settings stored from previous sessions.
Sometimes hard drives appear in device manager or disk management and sometimes not.
It looks like the problem caused by the boot/startup process of windows 10 not working correctly.
As it is sometimes not detecting a spinning connected hard drive that is in full working order.
I googled for info about the startup process and this is starting to look complex with much for me to learn.
Is there a way of requesting windows re-scan and build fresh picture of connected devices on boot and not use saved settings ?
Thank you for any responses.
Is there a way of requesting windows re-scan and build fresh picture of connected devices on boot and not use saved settings ?
I have a newish PC. Came with windows 10 pre-installed.
Motherboard Gigabyte B85M-D3H
There are 4 Sata III ports 0,1,2 and 3 with white connectors
All the ports are set up the same way in BIOS :-
Integrated SATA controller enabled
ACHI enabled
All 3 ports enabled
All 3 ports hot swap enabled
I have tried 2 data cables - both worked on port 3
The data cables have clicked home
I have reinstalled windows 10
When hard drive connected to SATA port 3 windows detects and hard drive works correctly and in regular use with data stored.
The drive has been scanned for errors by right click and running error checking
When hard drive connected to SATA port 2 hard drive shows in BIOS but not detected by windows 10
When hard drive reconnected to SATA port 3 windows detects and hard drive works correctly once again.
When hard drive reconnected to SATA port 2 hard drive - shows in BIOS but not detected by windows 10 again
The hard drive does not appear in device manager or disk management
I ran windows troubleshooter but still not detected
I booted from Linux mint with the hard drive still connected to port 2
The hard drive is detected and shows in list of available drives in Linux
Rebooted windows 10
This time the hard drive on port 2 was detected by windows 10
The hard drive appears in device manager and disk management and is working correctly.
My guess is that after a preceeding boot from Linux, Windows is getting triggered to start over and do a full scan of what is connected.
This intermittent issue has happened a number of times with different hard drives and different ports.
My best guess is sometimes windows does not detect connected hard drives at a lower level
as it not carrying out a full scan of what is connected and is making assumptions using settings stored from previous sessions.
Sometimes hard drives appear in device manager or disk management and sometimes not.
It looks like the problem caused by the boot/startup process of windows 10 not working correctly.
As it is sometimes not detecting a spinning connected hard drive that is in full working order.
I googled for info about the startup process and this is starting to look complex with much for me to learn.
Is there a way of requesting windows re-scan and build fresh picture of connected devices on boot and not use saved settings ?
Thank you for any responses.
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