Drive Disappearing in Win 8

[randym13]

I have a new build using Azrock z77 Extreme 4 Mobo with 1 SSD and 1 HDD. The SSD is a new Samsung 840 Pro and the HDD is old 750GB Maxtor I had in a previous machine. I put the SSD on SATA3_0 and put the HDD on SATA2_2.

The issue is that after a little usage on the HDD, it will disappear from system (e.g. Disk Management shows, "Not Initialized". Rebooting will restore it to working again. After reboot if running SeaTools and performing diagnostics, it shows no issues with the drive.

Any thoughts on what could be the issue? I have tried swapping the SATA cable as well as the port with the same issue.

 

[Ubrales]

Download and run HDTune and check the disk for errors, and disk health.

 

[randym13]

Running Error scan now. Any of these values area for concern:

HD Tune Pro: MAXTOR STM3750330AS Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 93 81 6 227849814 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 94 93 0 0 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20 147 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 36 2047 warning
(07) Seek Error Rate 68 58 30 79518152 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 55 55 0 39953 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 3 warning
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 37 20 151 ok
(B8) End To End Error Detection 100 100 99 0 ok
(BB) Reported Uncorrectable Errors 94 94 0 6 ok
(BC) Command Timeout 100 100 0 0 ok
(BD) (unknown attribute) 94 94 0 6 ok
(BE) Airflow Temperature 71 54 45 488243229 ok
(C2) Temperature 29 46 0 29 ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 45 21 0 227849814 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok

Health Status : warning

 

[Ubrales]

Check the raw value of the re-allocated sectors - there should be none on a hard disk in good condition.

Looks like the there is a yellow warning on the health status. Time to replace before you have total failure.

 

[randym13]

Best answer selected by randym13.