HDD Disappears Until I Shut Down

Rowan88

Rowan88

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Hi,

My computer was working fine. I decided to install Windows 10 today.

I disconnected my HDD and only left my SSD connected. Installed Windows 10 successfully, installed drivers/programs etc.

I then turned it off and connected my HDD (Storage). It shows fine but I noticed when I went to copy files from the HDD to SSD it would start doing it for about a minute or so then the speed goes to 0MB/s and nothing happens. When I close it all and check my HDD doesn't show anymore and says files are inaccessible. When I restart it still doesn't show, even in the BIOS.

The only way I can get it to re-appear is when I turn the PC off, and then on again.

But when I try to copy files again it repeats the same process.

Does anyone have any suggestions I can try to fix this?

Thanks

UPDATE: Just some extra info, my music is on that hard drive too so I decided to let iTunes play for a while. After around 5mins it stopped playing the music and the program is unresponsive.
 
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latest mb bios?

looked in

Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings advanced and disabled turn off hdd?

might be different for windows 10
 
I had an almost identical issue at the weekend with my brothers PC (I just installed windows on a new SSD drive). Trying to transfer any files from one of his other HDD's would drop to about 35kb/s

It turns out that the HDD playing up in question had the cable not quite in the port properly. It must have got knocked when I was fiddling about. His case is really small and the ports are under the GPU so its hard to see unless I remove the GPU (which I did in the end). I then used SATA cables with clips on them..
 
Latest bios installed.
HDD set to "never turn off" in Control Panel.

As far as the cables go, I will try another one but it has been working fine before I installed Windows 10 (which I have installed twice).

Will try another cable and port and let you know if the problem persists.
 
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