Hard Drive Problems

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I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's
back again.
Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed
to do to get it working again?
 
Seeing as how it appears to be an intermittent problem - and it's a SATA, I
would check to insure the cable and power connectors are seated properly and
at least try a substitute SATA cable. Could be a problem with the hard drive
itself which can be tested with the manf diags. SMART drives store any
error codes and would give you an indication of a pending or intermittent
failure. Could be the system got overheated last time by block the air
vents or maybe a fan got turned off and the drive electronics sensed the
over-temp and shutdown.

How long was the outage last time?

Bob S.
 
I'm not sure. I just restarted my computer after trying to install some USB
drivers for an SD card reader, and when it came back on it was gone.
manf diags?
 
S Murder said:
I'm not sure. I just restarted my computer after trying to install some
USB
drivers for an SD card reader, and when it came back on it was gone.
manf diags?
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We've been talking about drivers in another thread. Here's our chance to
test
the theory that C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 has been corrupted by installing
your new drivers.

Just rename INFCACHE.1 to INFCACHE.old and reboot. I did it and my
machine is still working perfectly. You will need to add 'take ownership'
to
the privileges of Users in its Properties>>Security dialog box before you
can
rename the file.
 
Yup, it all worked. Thanks.

Don said:
We've been talking about drivers in another thread. Here's our chance to
test
the theory that C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 has been corrupted by installing
your new drivers.

Just rename INFCACHE.1 to INFCACHE.old and reboot. I did it and my
machine is still working perfectly. You will need to add 'take ownership'
to
the privileges of Users in its Properties>>Security dialog box before you
can
rename the file.
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