Hello! I'm having a problem with my PC where windows 7 Pro isn't always recognizing my data drives. It seems to be intermittent, and I don't know how to diagnose this. Here's the situation...this PC is a dedicated music studio workstation, used to record audio. Initially, I had 3 drives on the PC...one 90gig ssd for OS, one 256gig ssd for samples, and one 2TB hdd for recording audio. Everything was fine in this configuration. I ended up needing more space, boh on the OS drive and for samples, so, I cloned (ghosted) the 90gig OS drive to the 256gig sample drive...this seemed to work just fine, no issues.
I then formatted the 90gig drive to use for sample storage, as well as added 2 new 500gig ssd's for samples as well. So the final configuration is:
256gig OS drive
90gig sample drive
500gig sample drive x2
2TB hdd for audio
Now, about 50-60% of the time when I first start up the PC, it won't recognize all the drives. Windows always loads, it just doesn't see all the data drives. I actually have to re-boot in order to get it to see them. Funny thing is, when this happens, windows doesn't usually shut down fully. It will shut down and turn off the monitors, but the PC doesn't actually turn off, most times I have to push and hold the power buttonto turn it off. Then I turn it back on, and it says something about "overclocking has failed!" and asks me to go into the bios, so I do, butall I have to do it exit without changing anything and windows will bott fine ad all drives will be present.
Now, I'm not doing any overclocking of anything, so I don't know how or why this message comes up, or if that's just some response to me having to force the PC to shut down and restart...?
My system is the following:
Asus Sabertooth X79 mobo
Intel i7 3930k cpu
32 gigs g.skill DDR3 1600 ram (8x4gig sticks)
Corsair AX850 gold power supply
Nvidia NVS450 Quadro video card
Drives:
Samsung 830 256gig OS drive
Corsair Force GT 90gig sample drive
Samsung 840 EVO 500gig sample drives x2
Hitachi 7k3000 2TB audio HDD
Any help on how to proceed would be appreciated...thanks!
Brian
I then formatted the 90gig drive to use for sample storage, as well as added 2 new 500gig ssd's for samples as well. So the final configuration is:
256gig OS drive
90gig sample drive
500gig sample drive x2
2TB hdd for audio
Now, about 50-60% of the time when I first start up the PC, it won't recognize all the drives. Windows always loads, it just doesn't see all the data drives. I actually have to re-boot in order to get it to see them. Funny thing is, when this happens, windows doesn't usually shut down fully. It will shut down and turn off the monitors, but the PC doesn't actually turn off, most times I have to push and hold the power buttonto turn it off. Then I turn it back on, and it says something about "overclocking has failed!" and asks me to go into the bios, so I do, butall I have to do it exit without changing anything and windows will bott fine ad all drives will be present.
Now, I'm not doing any overclocking of anything, so I don't know how or why this message comes up, or if that's just some response to me having to force the PC to shut down and restart...?
My system is the following:
Asus Sabertooth X79 mobo
Intel i7 3930k cpu
32 gigs g.skill DDR3 1600 ram (8x4gig sticks)
Corsair AX850 gold power supply
Nvidia NVS450 Quadro video card
Drives:
Samsung 830 256gig OS drive
Corsair Force GT 90gig sample drive
Samsung 840 EVO 500gig sample drives x2
Hitachi 7k3000 2TB audio HDD
Any help on how to proceed would be appreciated...thanks!
Brian