Hello, I previously posted in the Windows 10 forum but am thinking as it is more hardware based I may have better luck in here.
Here is the link to the original thread: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18740674
And here is the main blurb copied:
"I upgraded to Windows 10 about a month ago from Windows 8.1 as thought it had been out long enough for most of the kinks to be gone and generally from XP to 7 to 8.1 I didn't have any issues.
Unfortunately Windows 10 isn't working quite as well as I would like, I am assuming this new issue is Windows 10 related as explained below:
I have 1 512GB SSD and 6 SATA drives in my main PC for media storage. 5 of these are connected via the motherboard and 2 are connected via a SATA PCI-E card I bought when I had Windows 8.1 along with 2 of the 6 hard drives (Toshiba 4TB). I never had any hard drive related issues before.
Last few days however copying from a folder on my desktop to one of the other hard drives would take ages to start copying and same with deleting, frequently requiring me to manually refresh just to show the items gone/copied. Then after using Kodi the other day and accessing one of my Toshiba hard drives (connected to the SATA controller) folders it told me the directory wasn't there, went to my computer and despite the hard drive being there, the space of the media files being used (about 1TB) going into the drive there were no files, after a restart it worked as normal (and by restart the waiting for a bit then shut off via power button). It has happened another 2 times in as many days and just now, it also would not let me access the other Toshiba hard drive (connected via SATA card).
First thoughts were hard drives going, but unlikely as both are playing up, both are the newest and they just happened to be connected via this SATA card. So I would think SATA card except....at one point all the hard drives except C: just disappeared in my computer, after leaving it a few mins and File Explorer just seeming borked, reset and all fine and also, it hadn't actually done this for the first 3-4 weeks although I can't say I specifically remember accessing those drives (some media and files really just storage) but I did certainly copy files to them without incident.
So I'm not sure, with the delayed desktop performance, disappearing files (which upon doing an error check tells me there are errors on the drive but after reboot all fine) while the space is still being used, the hard drives aside from once dont seem to disappear just certain files/folders. Am leaning towards the SATA controller possibly needing a driver update but struggling to find out which card I bought but again as no conflicts in device manager I struggle to think this is the cause."
I have fixed another issue regarding restart/shutdown issues by installing the Intel chipset drivers (noob Windows 10 mistake, 8.1 got them automatically
) which I thought had sorted the hard drive issues but just now went to access my music on one of them and nada, error checking reports both drives connected to the SATA card as having errors but no others....so definitely SATA controller related but is it also Windows 10 related having upgraded so recently?
Any help appreciated before I splash out on a new SATA controller.
Thanks!
Here is the link to the original thread: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18740674
And here is the main blurb copied:
"I upgraded to Windows 10 about a month ago from Windows 8.1 as thought it had been out long enough for most of the kinks to be gone and generally from XP to 7 to 8.1 I didn't have any issues.
Unfortunately Windows 10 isn't working quite as well as I would like, I am assuming this new issue is Windows 10 related as explained below:
I have 1 512GB SSD and 6 SATA drives in my main PC for media storage. 5 of these are connected via the motherboard and 2 are connected via a SATA PCI-E card I bought when I had Windows 8.1 along with 2 of the 6 hard drives (Toshiba 4TB). I never had any hard drive related issues before.
Last few days however copying from a folder on my desktop to one of the other hard drives would take ages to start copying and same with deleting, frequently requiring me to manually refresh just to show the items gone/copied. Then after using Kodi the other day and accessing one of my Toshiba hard drives (connected to the SATA controller) folders it told me the directory wasn't there, went to my computer and despite the hard drive being there, the space of the media files being used (about 1TB) going into the drive there were no files, after a restart it worked as normal (and by restart the waiting for a bit then shut off via power button). It has happened another 2 times in as many days and just now, it also would not let me access the other Toshiba hard drive (connected via SATA card).
First thoughts were hard drives going, but unlikely as both are playing up, both are the newest and they just happened to be connected via this SATA card. So I would think SATA card except....at one point all the hard drives except C: just disappeared in my computer, after leaving it a few mins and File Explorer just seeming borked, reset and all fine and also, it hadn't actually done this for the first 3-4 weeks although I can't say I specifically remember accessing those drives (some media and files really just storage) but I did certainly copy files to them without incident.
So I'm not sure, with the delayed desktop performance, disappearing files (which upon doing an error check tells me there are errors on the drive but after reboot all fine) while the space is still being used, the hard drives aside from once dont seem to disappear just certain files/folders. Am leaning towards the SATA controller possibly needing a driver update but struggling to find out which card I bought but again as no conflicts in device manager I struggle to think this is the cause."
I have fixed another issue regarding restart/shutdown issues by installing the Intel chipset drivers (noob Windows 10 mistake, 8.1 got them automatically
) which I thought had sorted the hard drive issues but just now went to access my music on one of them and nada, error checking reports both drives connected to the SATA card as having errors but no others....so definitely SATA controller related but is it also Windows 10 related having upgraded so recently?Any help appreciated before I splash out on a new SATA controller.
Thanks!