Secondary (Storage) Hard Drive and DVD drive keeps disappearing after some time

Radelly

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I have a SSD with windows on ( C: ) Then i also have my storage HHD ( E: )and my DVD ( D: ) drive, which keeps disappearing after some use (In games on the HHD mostly), they are both plugged into the two SATA 6gbps ports on my motherboard, while the SSD is plugged into a 3 gbps.

I dont know if it is the two 6 gbps ports that are the reasoning for the problem and can i move the sata cables to 3 gbps ports instead?

Im not the biggest tech person who knows a lot about using the BIOS and such, but really hope someone knows what might be wrong

(I have googled the problem and the most common answer is to change SATA cabel, which hasn't helped, i do however have some old SATA cables, but dont know if they would work)

My specs:

CPU: i7 3770k @3,5Ghz
GPU: GTX 660 ti
PSU: 650 W
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-lx2
RAM: 16 gb ddr3
SSD: Samsung Evo 840 120gb
HDD: Seagate 1 tb
OS: Windows 7
 
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Welcome to Tom's Hardware, Radelly!

Your SSD should be connected to one of the SATA 6 Gb/s ports because the 3 Gb/s SATA connection is bottlenecking its performance and transfer speed. Since the changing of the SATA cables didn't help your system recognize the secondary storage drives, I'd recommend you to go to your motherboard manufacturer's website and update the SATA controller drivers for your model from there.
Another thing that could help is resetting BIOS using one of the methods listed here: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS
However, it will get your BIOS settings back to factory defaults, so you'd need to know how to reconfigure them afterward.
I'd also suggest you to check your mobo's manual for guidelines on how to...
Welcome to Tom's Hardware, Radelly!

Your SSD should be connected to one of the SATA 6 Gb/s ports because the 3 Gb/s SATA connection is bottlenecking its performance and transfer speed. Since the changing of the SATA cables didn't help your system recognize the secondary storage drives, I'd recommend you to go to your motherboard manufacturer's website and update the SATA controller drivers for your model from there.
Another thing that could help is resetting BIOS using one of the methods listed here: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS
However, it will get your BIOS settings back to factory defaults, so you'd need to know how to reconfigure them afterward.
I'd also suggest you to check your mobo's manual for guidelines on how to upgrade your BIOS firmware and make sure you have the latest BIOS version.

Give these steps a try and let me know how it goes!
Good luck! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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