Hard drive not recognized

[PsychoCoder]

I'm dealing with an issue with my7 wife's computer. It goes through not seeing a hard drive that is connected. I've tried different SATA cables and several SATA ports on her motherboard, nothing seems to stop it. Most of the time a couple reboots fixes the issue but that's just a band-aid, I need to fix it permanently.

Anyone got any insight on this issue?

[Rabbit]

Have you looked under disk management in computer management? There could be two resources allocated to the same drive letter. Which means that only one of them can get assigned.

[PsychoCoder]

Tried that, nothing sharing the same drive letter found. I think the next step is to try the drive in my system and see what happens

[Niheel]

We've experienced this problem twice. Once it was a failed drive, second time it was a dying mother board. Eventually no drive worked would work on the machine.

Your next step is the best way to test it.

[sicarie]

Depending the system you're working on, many times the BIOS will contain a self-check for this - I have a few HP laptops and they were able to do read/write tests on the disk and help me isolate the issue when my HDD failed

[Lordy]

Test the hard drive in other computers ( yours for example ), if he worked , the problem is in the mother board.. A dying mother board perhaps..