I'd like to join in too. My second SATA drive disappears from time to time.
It seems to be when it is being heavily used. I have to power off and up then
Vista sees it. This time, I donwloaded the Data Lifeguard rom WDC and ran the
Write Zeros test. No problem there. But, Vista wanted to format the drive
afterwards. OK, but in the middle of the format, the drive disappears. After
powering down and up, Vista does not see the drive but the Data Lifeguard
program does.
In my searches, this seems to be a consistent problem in Vista and so far,
no resolution exists, at least that I have found.
"Vista_is_the_new_ME" wrote:
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> I have a new pc w/ vista, 2 sata hard drives. Everything was fine, then a
> week later the slave drive disappeared. The BIOS recognizes the drive, but
> Vista doesn't. I've seen enough threads on here w/ no resolution. System
> restore is not an answer.
>
> Microsoft - Fix the problem.