Troubleshooting lost Hard Drive

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S. Robert Davidoff

I have an Intel D975XBX Board with 2 SE Hard Drives which are set in the IDE
mode, not RAID. My first HD has the OS and programs and Data and the second
acts strictly as a back-up. I recently noticed that I keep "Loosing" the
backup hard drive. If I shut down and restart, it comes back (at least so
far) and everything that I have that can asses the drive says it's healthy.

How do I determine if my problem is with the motherboard or the hard drive
itself?

Bob
 
S. Robert Davidoff said:
I have an Intel D975XBX Board with 2 SE Hard Drives which are set in the
IDE mode, not RAID. My first HD has the OS and programs and Data and the
second acts strictly as a back-up. I recently noticed that I keep "Loosing"
the backup hard drive. If I shut down and restart, it comes back (at least
so far) and everything that I have that can asses the drive says it's
healthy.

How do I determine if my problem is with the motherboard or the hard drive
itself?

Bob
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So, what shows in Event Viewer? Run the manufacturers diagnostic on the
dodgy drive, full diagnostic, not short.
Mike.
 
S. Robert Davidoff said:
I have an Intel D975XBX Board with 2 SE Hard Drives which are set in the
IDE mode, not RAID. My first HD has the OS and programs and Data and the
second acts strictly as a back-up. I recently noticed that I keep "Loosing"
the backup hard drive. If I shut down and restart, it comes back (at least
so far) and everything that I have that can asses the drive says it's
healthy.

How do I determine if my problem is with the motherboard or the hard drive
itself?

Bob
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That depends on how they are connected. If the two IDE hard drives you
write about are on the came cable, you have a hard drive going bad. If the
two IDE drives are on different cables, no conclusion can be drawn yet.
Swap the cables on the hard drive end ONLY. (don't disconnect the cables
from the mainboard, but swap the cables so that each hard drive is now on a
different IDE cable than it was on before)

If you have the backup hard drive sharing cable with some other IDE
component that's working fine, you also have a hard drive going bad.

If you start swapping cables around, watch your jumpers on the back of all
your IDE drives. -Dave
 
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