I had a new Intel hard drive installed and I reinstalled my system on it, my original hard drive being now used for storage.
Since then, occasionally the OS will freeze, and upon rebooting I will see a blue screen saying that booting is impossible and that recovery tools will be needed. The reason is that the system didn't find an OS to boot, and the reason for that is that the new hard drive just disappeared. In the BIOS, the new hard drive just doesn't appear anymore on SATA 1, while my original hard drive on SATA 2 still appears.
A temporary fix is to unplug and replug the new hard drive's SATA cable, which works occasionally, what works best is to just change the SATA ports, for example to SATA 2 and SATA 3, then the computer boots normally, and I can use it for another day or another few weeks, until it happens again.
Since then, occasionally the OS will freeze, and upon rebooting I will see a blue screen saying that booting is impossible and that recovery tools will be needed. The reason is that the system didn't find an OS to boot, and the reason for that is that the new hard drive just disappeared. In the BIOS, the new hard drive just doesn't appear anymore on SATA 1, while my original hard drive on SATA 2 still appears.
A temporary fix is to unplug and replug the new hard drive's SATA cable, which works occasionally, what works best is to just change the SATA ports, for example to SATA 2 and SATA 3, then the computer boots normally, and I can use it for another day or another few weeks, until it happens again.
- if the SATA cable was faulty, then changing it (which I have) would have fixed the issue
- if the SATA port was faulty, then the other hard drive would have disappeared too when plugged into this port, also changing to SATA 3 and SATA 4 (which I have) would have fixed the issue
- if the computer hardware was faulty, then the other hard drive would have disappeared too, and re-plugging anything anywhere wouldn't have fixed the issue
- if the new hard drive was faulty, it would never reappear or at least it wouldn't wait until I plugged it in again to reappear