New samsung 1TB drive disappears only when I restart XP?

[Denvers Dawgs]

Ok so I just added a new samsung 1TB drive in my XP system. What I have just noticed is that if I choose to restart my pc the 1TB drive doesn't appear in my computer anymore? If I do a shutdown, then turn back on drive is there again. What the heck is causing this?

[unclebud]

Is your XP sp3?

[Denvers Dawgs]

yes it is, its also sata.

[lordsmurf]

I had this on a Hitachi 500GB drive.

Windows was corrupt, had to repair install it.
(Which led to other issues, since Windows Vista undocumented repair install blows.)

[Denvers Dawgs]

Hopefully that is not it, but I'd just have to use my acronis image to set it straight again. Plus re-install the stuff that I've added since the image was saved.

[lordsmurf]

Are you sure the drive is good?
Samsung isn't exactly the caviar of the hard drive world.

Being "new" doesn't mean anything. Most bad drives are new drives.

[hech54]

I've got 3 Samsung SATA drives in this machine.....they are flawless and super quiet.

[NICEBUD]

hech54
You say that you have another 3 hard drives in your pc if the sizes = more than 3.3TB then xp will have a problem on standard MBR loading them.Im using Linux Ubuntu 10.04 and managed to add 7.8 TB with no boot errors I think its limit is 1xb or something like that.As for samsung hard drives ive got 3 x 1TB and must say quite fast and bloody good value (£43)
You always write a new mbr with the drives connected to see what happens.

cheers

[lordsmurf]

My main desktop system has about 7TB, counting all the IDE, SATA, Firewire, and USB2 drives.
It's running XP SP2.
It's more of a file server now, for the rest of the network.

I switched to a laptop 7 months ago, to do most non-video work.

[Bjs]

Second last post here , someone else experienced a similar issue and appears to have resolved the problem.

[hech54]

I have two 500Bg storage drives and a 250GB "C Drive" in my system.....plus an external USB.

[turk690]

Ok so I just added a new samsung 1TB drive in my XP system. What I have just noticed is that if I choose to restart my pc the 1TB drive doesn't appear in my computer anymore? If I do a shutdown, then turn back on drive is there again. What the heck is causing this?

I still have an XP SP3 system with 6 SATA HDDs attached to it, all WD. When I connect a Sony AVCHD camcorder by way of USB, about 9 times out of 10 its drive letter appear and I can get the *.mts files from it no fuss. During that odd occasion it doesn't appear, a complete shutdown brings it back on the next boot. It didn't bother me much, until a latest 2TB WD20EVDS SATA drive also started behaving the same way and shutting the PC down in the middle of the project was rapidly becoming a teeth-gritting experience.
I had previously permanently put the icon from control panel>administrative tools>computer management on the quick-launch bar where storage>local disk management could be accessed and clicked for want of anything better from the kvetch. Over a few inspections, I noticed that HDDs SATA or USB may disappear from windows explorer at times, but they are always present in local disk management, with drive letters or without. It becomes a simple matter of right-clicking said drive, then open, copy-pasting the files to the other folders elsewhere in other drives where needed. No need to shutdown since.
When and if Win7 SP1 is here I will make a clean install and duly hope the Case of the Disappearing Drives Disappear.

[Denvers Dawgs]

I had this on a Hitachi 500GB drive.

Windows was corrupt, had to repair install it.
(Which led to other issues, since Windows Vista undocumented repair install blows.)

Ok so I just reinstalled my OS from an image from 1.5 years ago, but the issue still happens. Only on restarts does my 2nd drive not appear. It doesn't appear under computer management either.

is there a way to SMART test the drive, without losing everything I have saved on it? On the Samsung Site it says "Please Back-up your data before executing this program." Also says this program may erase all your data. That's not what i"d like to happen.

[Bjs]

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor

A free tool which can show health status of drives physically connected to the system, not by usb external.

Dropping off would sound as thou the spin up time is dropping.

[Denvers Dawgs]

Ok so I just chatted with HP and they were saying that my pc max's out at 500GB hard drives? Does that seem right? I have an hp a1630n with this mobo:

• Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS A8M2N-LA
• HP/Compaq name: NodusM3-GL8E

here is the chat session

[NICEBUD]

hech54
Have you got the latest bios/firmware for your motherboard.That might help.I had similar problem a few years ago and seemed to cure
the problem.




cheers

[RabidDog]

That conversation looks like a BOt script or something from 2001 (HAL). "thank you Brian, now I must terminate you"
You don't state what system you have /what motherboard /what BIOS level
also xp should be at SP3 otherwise you may get errors . Is it a 2.5 disk? maybe its the powers supply
Have you tried an UBUNTU live CD? SMart testing software wont wipe your disk unless you tell it to.