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Vanishing internal hard drive.

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i'm looking at a laptop at the moment.
The sata hard drive appears sometimes, other times not.
Tried three sata drives, 2 of them new. Same problem each time.
The drive's not even been registered at the bios stage when it's in it's stealth mode.

Is there such a thing as the SATA drive controller going?

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  • Lucero_2
    Lucero_2 Posts: 283 Forumite
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    chunter wrote: »
    i'm looking at a laptop at the moment.
    The sata hard drive appears sometimes, other times not.
    Tried three sata drives, 2 of them new. Same problem each time.
    The drive's not even been registered at the bios stage when it's in it's stealth mode.

    Is there such a thing as the SATA drive controller going?

    Sounds like there is an issue on the controller board (loose connection, poor solder, etc). What model is the laptop?
  • This is usually a poor soldering issue, but can definitely be fixed. As above - What model?
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  • bluesnake
    bluesnake Posts: 1,460 Forumite
    could also be bad sata cable/connector, could be the drive power cable connection too
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