Strange Internal HDD problem

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Matt_215

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Hi all,

Recently my pc kept shutting down instantly for no reason. I put it down to the PSU which was quite old.

I bought an EVGA gold rated psu which works fine but now my bios is not recognising my second storage HDD, windows sees it as an unknown drive. Furthermore, when this drive is connected the pc boots VERY slow. When I disconnect the SATA cable for this drive the pc boots normally.

Would a faulty SATA cable cause these problems?? It was working fine with the last psu. They don't sell SATA cables where I live so i have to wait for Amazon.

Could something else be the issue? Maybe the original psu wasn't faulty?

I'm lost
 
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It could be coincidence that the second hard drive is failing. You can confirm that by connecting the drive to another computer and see if you get the same behavior. Trying another SATA cable is certainly worth trying...and/or another SATA port on your system board too.

If there is data of any value on the hard drive, you may want to limit what you try and consider your options before possibly risking further damage to the drive.
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DR_Luke

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It could be coincidence that the second hard drive is failing. You can confirm that by connecting the drive to another computer and see if you get the same behavior. Trying another SATA cable is certainly worth trying...and/or another SATA port on your system board too.

If there is data of any value on the hard drive, you may want to limit what you try and consider your options before possibly risking further damage to the drive.
 
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Matt_215

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Thanks for your reply. Thing is this drive is pretty new, its a toshiba P300 which is supposed to be high performance reliable drive!! Luckily I have the vast majority of my files backed up externally.
 
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