Windows 10: vanishing hard drive

Gday,

I placed this in the network area but I can't see it being a network issue in the normal sense of networks.

I have a most weird problem that recently occurred. Never had this issue before. Relevant PCs are Win10.

I have 5 hard drives on computer A each with multiple partitions. I have a home networked laptop Ill call computer B.

When I am using B and send a 3 gig file via the network to A it begins OK and gets about halfway through and then fails. So I am sending from A to B.

The transfer fails because the destination hard drive on A vanishes when actually viewed from A. The only way I can get it back is to reboot A.

Next I tried the reverse direction and when working from A I accessed B via the network and began retrieving a file from B. So I am now pulling a file across from B to A. Once again part way through my coping process it fails and again I have lost the same hard drive on A and must reboot to get it back.

I immediately thought hard drive fault. It is a WD black/caviar 2TB and 1 year old. I ran the WD diagnostics without issue. Ditto Win10 diags.

The next obvious thing to do was copy locally on A. So I chose a bunch of PST files (about 20 gigs total) on another hard drive on A and copied them to the failing hard drive on A. That worked perfectly.

I figure I do not have a hard drive issue. The issue is only when transferring files over my network. Smaller files work OK. Once above about 1 gig the transfers fail.

Sure, network issues are common. Anyone can have network headaches. What I cannot fathom though is how a home network file transfer can disable a hard drive on the destination PC.

It is not relevant but the destination hard drive contains 4 partitions G: H: I: J: and I am writing to H: All 4 vanish as if that hard drive was unplugged.

:)

 

Overclock your hard drive!!!

Heres a much easier hack that I realized quite a few years ago that really does work!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Hard drive with molex power connection.
• PSU with more than 1 strand that has molex plugs on it.
• Wire strippers, soldering iron if you're fancy, electrical tape if you're not.

STEPS:

• Take the strand of connectors from your PSU, and decide which one will be the donator for this overclocking adventure.
• Cut the yellow and orange cables, then twist them together.
• Find the power connector you've chosen as the overclocking connector, and release the orange cable from the connector. Now use your preferred method to bind them together, then place it back together.
• Plug in a drive and feel the speed!

Congratulations! You've just overclocked your hard drive!

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?

 

Overclock your hard drive!!!

Wut =D

what is that supposed to accomplish?