Help needed, two hard drives now died

Mak3R · 17 Jun 2011 at 21:47

Hello everyone, I'm here to seek advice.
Last week my SSD died. I was using my pc as normal then it suddenly BSOD and restarted. After that it started up and I was presented with a message of "no disk inserted, insert boot disk". My drive not recognise in bios or by the windows disk.

It was then RMAd to overclockers. This process was going to take a long time so I bought a new cheap HDD to tide me over.

Now tonight the exact same thing has happened with this new disk! What could be causing this? Please help :-(

Edit/. The drive had now suddenly appeared in the boot menu and I'm getting as far as "starting windows" but freezing at that. Something is seriously wrong. (sorry for dodgy typing, reduced to phone!)

mraerosmith1981 · 17 Jun 2011 at 21:57

could be psu??

Mak3R · 17 Jun 2011 at 22:17

Ok I have tried a few things. I swapped the Sata port it was in, as well as the cable with a new one. It is now in a Gray port instead of blue.
It then loaded into startup repair and fixed some "disk errors". It has now got into desktop. Could be a dodgy sata port?

Mattus · 18 Jun 2011 at 00:39

Mak3R said:
Ok I have tried a few things. I swapped the Sata port it was in, as well as the cable with a new one. It is now in a Gray port instead of blue.
It then loaded into startup repair and fixed some "disk errors". It has now got into desktop. Could be a dodgy sata port?

Could be a dodgy port/controller, or could well be a dodgy cable. Time for a process of elimination!

olivier renault · 18 Jun 2011 at 01:59

could be a dodgy sata cable. Or motherboard connector...

Mak3R · 18 Jun 2011 at 15:52

That's what I was thinking. Although my RMA'd SSD which this happened to first was sent back to the manufacturer by ocuk. This implies they couldnt get it to work either.

So it's strange...

olivier renault · 18 Jun 2011 at 16:14

could have damaged the SSD. Difficult to say, but I'd be wary using that cable / port on the motherboard, or even the motherboard.

Mak3R · 18 Jun 2011 at 17:49

I agree. I've swapped cable and ports. If it happens again I know the sata controller is gone. Which would involve RMA'ing the board. Not fun.

Mak3R · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:09

Ok the pc displayed the "no disk detected insert boot disk" message again today. It's not on a different port with a different cable and HDD.

I guess the only thing left is that its a faulty mobo?