Alright, heres the story.
Have an 80GB storage drive(Drive1) on my IDE channel(along with another 80GB storage[Drive2]) in conjunction with my 500Gb main drive on Sata. Both the Sata, and Drive2 are fine, never an issue. Drive1 however over the past few months on occasion would not show up in My computer or management, or anything really, a quick reboot and it showed up again. However, just the other night I tried to copy a file to it, and it freaked out, giving me a delayed write error, followed by messages saying "All data on Drive F: has been lost" along with windows telling me an error occurred with my hardware. Given I had some important data on this drive I panicked and quickly reboot, only to find it not showing up again. Eventually after 4-5 reboots it came back up and I quickly copied my data to my empty space on my 500GB. Although my data is safe for now, and I'm already looking for a new drive, is there anything wrong with this drive, or is it playing games with me?
No noise, or symptoms typical of a failing drive, beyond the couple of times it vanished on me.
Drive is currently showing up and all files are accessible.
Other Hard drive(Drive2) on the same IDE cable and molex cable is fine, never an issue.
While not a large concern, The drive would be useful for redundant backup, or emergency drive, etc, but if its busted, no reason to keep it, maybe make a speaker out of it.
Thanks
Have an 80GB storage drive(Drive1) on my IDE channel(along with another 80GB storage[Drive2]) in conjunction with my 500Gb main drive on Sata. Both the Sata, and Drive2 are fine, never an issue. Drive1 however over the past few months on occasion would not show up in My computer or management, or anything really, a quick reboot and it showed up again. However, just the other night I tried to copy a file to it, and it freaked out, giving me a delayed write error, followed by messages saying "All data on Drive F: has been lost" along with windows telling me an error occurred with my hardware. Given I had some important data on this drive I panicked and quickly reboot, only to find it not showing up again. Eventually after 4-5 reboots it came back up and I quickly copied my data to my empty space on my 500GB. Although my data is safe for now, and I'm already looking for a new drive, is there anything wrong with this drive, or is it playing games with me?
No noise, or symptoms typical of a failing drive, beyond the couple of times it vanished on me.
Drive is currently showing up and all files are accessible.
Other Hard drive(Drive2) on the same IDE cable and molex cable is fine, never an issue.
While not a large concern, The drive would be useful for redundant backup, or emergency drive, etc, but if its busted, no reason to keep it, maybe make a speaker out of it.
Thanks