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Thread ID: 128743 2013-01-12 05:19:00 Wow - one of my hard drives crashed but seems all ok now Digby (677) Press F1
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1322478 2013-01-12 05:19:00 Hi Guys

I have a C drive with Windows 7 etc
And a D drive for all of my data.

I was just downloading a file - went away to get a drink and when I came back things seemed a bit strange.
I clicked on my D drive icon and it then disaapered1

C drive was still there.
But D was just not there in My Computer at all.

I closed down the PC and re-booted.
Windows said I should run Chkdsk.
This went through all Ok
And after a few minutes of agonising wait it booted up all OK.

It seems to be going OK now.

I have run Malware bytes and MSE - no problems were reported

I wonder what would have caused this ?

Any other tests I can or should do ?

Thanks 		Digby (677)
1322479 2013-01-12 05:54:00 Download Seagate Seatools or Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic depending on the brand of your drives Greven (91)
1322480 2013-01-12 06:15:00 Check your power cable and data cable to the drive is not loose. If it's an older 4-Pin power plug, the contacts may have expanded and become loose also. You can squash them in a little with a small flathead screwdriver to restore good tight contact.

Also, I would check SMART with Speedfan or similar. Anything shows up as failing, backup the drive if not already done and return it for replacement or buy a new one.

Note: some SMART errors can be caused by faulty cable, faulty controller or faulty PSU. If you do see any errors, post them here if you want confirmation. 		Agent_24 (57)
1322481 2013-01-12 07:06:00 Windows can sometimes exhibit quite a lag when taking care of business at the end of transferring a lot of files.

If D is a partition sharing the same physical drive as C, then I'd get very busy scanning and backing up.

If D is a second drive, then there is a tad less urgency, but checks are still needed.
If it's a 'Green' drive, then it might have been a power saving / spin down/up problem, which is nothing to worry about. Green drives are best used as removable (backup) media, rather than as a major built in, alwaya available resource... although I'm using one myself for C and D. 		Paul.Cov (425)
1322482 2013-01-12 07:29:00 Defiantly check out the drive as its been mentioned above.

You can also look in the eventvwr look for Error Disk --- if that's there then it could have failing sectors and check the reliability monitor, to open that , click start type on reli select it look for the time it lost contact, there may be some useful information (or not).

chkdsk runs usually when theres a corruption of some kind. 		wainuitech (129)
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