Hard Drive not being recognised on boot

[Bradmax57]

Hi, bit if a odd one (for me at least) is recently everytime I boot my pc my large 12tb internal 3.5" drive doesnt show up, i have to unplug the sata power and put back in and then its recognised and works just fine, not sure if its a hdd issue, mobo issue or psu issue or a combination of any of them, anyone had anything similar?

 

[Bradmax57]

When you do have it running, use something like CrystalDiskInfo to check the drive's SMART data.

Yeah tried that and shows as good

You can try using a different SATA cable for a start. If the issue persists try using a different SATA port on the motherboard.

Yeah will do that soon

 

[Bradmax57]

Try turning off things like fastboot (or anything that does a quicker start up), I had an issue with unraid not loading due to the faster boot not reading the usb drive. Not exactly the same but it would be something I would be looking at.

Think I tried that, just seems a bit hit or miss if its detected which is the odd thing, some boots its there others its not, if i unplug sata and plug back in its recognised, tried swapping the sata cable and no difference, i may just move it to a caddy anyway as I don't use it that much