My second hard drive (SATA) disappears from the system intermittently. I am running XP SP2. The event viewer confirms this stating Maxtor (id #) has disappered from the system. If I restart the system the drive will not reappear; I have to shut down and start the system. As I said it is completely intermittent NO ryhme or reason. I have replaced both cables, power and sata. My OS runs on the primary SATA and the 2nd SATA is the drive that disappears.
System specs
MB---ASUS P5KC
2 SATA hard drives Maxtor 80 GB
1 IDE drive WD 80GB
System specs
MB---ASUS P5KC
2 SATA hard drives Maxtor 80 GB
1 IDE drive WD 80GB