SATA Hard disk fails during boot

[Vins]

Hi,
One of my hard disk's recently didn't not allow me to boot. I have 3 hard disks on my system. The first disk on which I have installed the OS and the second disk which I added later are fine. I added this third disk recently and copied some data to it. It had suddenly failed. Any suggestions why this could be. !!

 

[Ubrales]

All devices will fail over time; some sooner, some later.

It could be the HDD or it could be the SATA cable connecting the HDD to the motherboard. Try a different cable,

Install and run "HDTune" and check the results.

 

[warhead0]

1. Check any BIOS settings related to SATA and boot priorities. (be sure to check all cable are correctly in place/properly seated)

2. Disable any unessential drives and listen for any weird sounds from the drive (clicking/buzzing).

3. How old is the drive? mechanical drives don't last forever unfortunately, they do slowly degenerate.