- Feb 21, 2018
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Just had a hard disk failure (Drive 1) last night and hence was removed.
But when booting up this morning I got a bios post AHCI Port error for another hard drive (Drive 2) I tested the drive in different slots and even in an external enclosure and it looked completely dead. Weird thing is if I put the original dead (Drive 1) drive back in the computer now Drive 2 would then work again and the AHCI error now points to the original dead drive etc...
SMART showed the dead (Drive 1) drive as having some minor problems so was kinda expected to fail at sometime, but SMART and Defraggler etc showed and still shows Drive 2 as having no problems.
Both drives in question are seagate 3tb drives (yes I know seagate..ugh) that I only used for backup storage (Win 10) ran virus and malware tests and all clean etc. Of the 6 HD's (mixed WD and Seagate) in the PC at the time Its was just these 2 drives that had this problem and seem to be linked somehow and I do not use a RAID for this PC etc, also there was a 3rd identical barracuda drive which also was not affected. Anyway I am replacing both drives just in case but still puzzled as to why it happened.
Thanks in advance I hope I was clear enough.
But when booting up this morning I got a bios post AHCI Port error for another hard drive (Drive 2) I tested the drive in different slots and even in an external enclosure and it looked completely dead. Weird thing is if I put the original dead (Drive 1) drive back in the computer now Drive 2 would then work again and the AHCI error now points to the original dead drive etc...
SMART showed the dead (Drive 1) drive as having some minor problems so was kinda expected to fail at sometime, but SMART and Defraggler etc showed and still shows Drive 2 as having no problems.
Both drives in question are seagate 3tb drives (yes I know seagate..ugh) that I only used for backup storage (Win 10) ran virus and malware tests and all clean etc. Of the 6 HD's (mixed WD and Seagate) in the PC at the time Its was just these 2 drives that had this problem and seem to be linked somehow and I do not use a RAID for this PC etc, also there was a 3rd identical barracuda drive which also was not affected. Anyway I am replacing both drives just in case but still puzzled as to why it happened.
Thanks in advance I hope I was clear enough.
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