- Apr 23, 2011
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My computer decided to give me a fantastic birthday preset yesterday: Massive data loss.
I use a small 30GB Vertex SSD to accelerate my main data drive. Lately, my IRST control center has been telling me that my actual data HDD cannot be found when I resume from sleep. I would just hit "enable" on the HDD in the IRST control center and everything would be fine. I figured this was either the driver acting up or my acceleration SDD was about to fail.
Today, I booted up to find that I can't find any data on my HDD when I open it in Explorer. The OS recognizes that the drive is there, but clicking into a folder causes a "not responding" error or returns no results. That's not good.
To remedy this, I tried checking the drive for errors. All I got was a dialog box that immediately popped up telling me to "Repair this drive" but lacking any option to actually repair anything. I then tried removing drive acceleration and removing the acceleration SDD - no change. At this point, W8.1 won't even recognize that there's a drive plugged in on that port, and it takes an EXTREMELY long time to boot
What's odd about this is that my BIOS still recognizes the drive and correctly identifies its parameters (size, model, S/N). It's still spinning, there's no unusual noise coming from it, the drive itself is only 5 years old or so, and I got absolutely no SMART warnings at all.
Should I just bite the bullet and admit it's a drive failure or could I try something else? I was going to try finding a program that displays SMART data, but, at this point, I can't reliably boot to my OS with the drive present. Not a good sign...
I use a small 30GB Vertex SSD to accelerate my main data drive. Lately, my IRST control center has been telling me that my actual data HDD cannot be found when I resume from sleep. I would just hit "enable" on the HDD in the IRST control center and everything would be fine. I figured this was either the driver acting up or my acceleration SDD was about to fail.
Today, I booted up to find that I can't find any data on my HDD when I open it in Explorer. The OS recognizes that the drive is there, but clicking into a folder causes a "not responding" error or returns no results. That's not good.
To remedy this, I tried checking the drive for errors. All I got was a dialog box that immediately popped up telling me to "Repair this drive" but lacking any option to actually repair anything. I then tried removing drive acceleration and removing the acceleration SDD - no change. At this point, W8.1 won't even recognize that there's a drive plugged in on that port, and it takes an EXTREMELY long time to boot
What's odd about this is that my BIOS still recognizes the drive and correctly identifies its parameters (size, model, S/N). It's still spinning, there's no unusual noise coming from it, the drive itself is only 5 years old or so, and I got absolutely no SMART warnings at all.
Should I just bite the bullet and admit it's a drive failure or could I try something else? I was going to try finding a program that displays SMART data, but, at this point, I can't reliably boot to my OS with the drive present. Not a good sign...
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