Hard Drive Disappeared

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I have been using a 80gb SSD as my primary disk C:, and a 1TB Western Digital Black to store everything else.

Yesterday, I went to sleep. Today when I woke up my D E F disks that were associated with the 1TB hard drive disappeared.

I did not shut down my computer over the night. I am using Windows 7 64 bit. I tried looking under Disk Management, but there was only the SSD and not the hard drive there. I tried restarting, didn't work either.
 
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Cable is plugged as usual, and the HDD is making spinning noise.
 
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Okay, so I replugged the cables and restarted the computer again and it worked. But I'm certain that the all cables were firmly plugged in before and the hard drive was spinning, and restarting the computer before did not help. So I'm kind of at a loss here to what happened.

And I feel that once it happens once, it'll probably happen again. Any ideas?
 
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I had a similar problem with my data drive (a second drive separate from my OS drive) randomly disappearing. It would be recognized again if I rebooted. The problem was solved when I updated my audio driver for another reason. Apparently the second hard drive and the sound card shared the same IRQ channel. For some reason, updating the audio driver resolved conflicts between them.
 
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Okay, so I replugged the cables and restarted the computer again and it worked. But I'm certain that the all cables were firmly plugged in before and the hard drive was spinning, and restarting the computer before did not help. So I'm kind of at a loss here to what happened.

And I feel that once it happens once, it'll probably happen again. Any ideas?
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Are you using the locking type of SATA cables or the strictly "friction fit" kind? If the latter, I would definitely get some locking cables.

Yogi
 
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