Hard drive loses the drive letter

[Skyn3t]

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Hola,

Resulta que hace poco instalé un disco sata interno en el sobremesa que aparentemente está bien. Lo he tenido unas horas testeando, haciendo transferencias… y no me ha dado problema alguno.

Me pierde continuamente la letra de unidad. Cada vez que reinicio, el disco se "desmapea" perdiendo la letra siempre. Tengo que ir al administrador de discos siempre a asignarle una letra de unidad, pero en el momento que vuelvo a reiniciar el pc o a apagar, la pierde de nuevo y es un coñazo cada vez que quiero acceder al contenido tener que asignarle la letra...

¿Alguno tenéis idea de que podría ser? He probado ha lanzarle un chkdsk /f /r y no me han salido errores tampoco...

Gracias!

[Sylver]

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Buenas

Echale un vistazo con el CrystalDisk a ver si está dañado…

Saludos

[Franziskaner]

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De que marca es y modelo
Saludos

[Skyn3t]

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Pues esto es lo que he sacado con el crystaldisk:

Parece que está ok. Es un seagate barracuda green de 5900 rpm. Lo he sacado de una carcasa que tenia por ahi muerta de risa, vamos, que era externo, pero eso no creo que tenga mucho que ver, ¿no?

[Sylver]

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Pues no, no parece que esté mal, ni tampoco parece que sea del asunto de la carcasa.
Igual es problema de la controladora que está medio loca…

[cobito]

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Cuando un PC cosas raras hace
un memtest siempre place.

[Skyn3t]

@cobito:

When a PC does strange things
a memtest always helps.

And what does the ram have to do with the hdd?

[cobito]

@Skyn3t:

¿Y que tiene que ver la ram con el hdd?

RAM has to do with all the hardware. A failure in the RAM can manifest in a million ways, from blue screens to graphics failures, a network that doesn't come up, a sound card that is unable to decode AC3 5.1... or an operating system that doesn't know how to mount a hard drive in its corresponding drive at each start, either because of a communication problem with the controller, because data is corrupted every time it saves the configuration, etc, etc, etc.

The first thing: run a memtest and from there you can start ruling things out.

Or if you feel like the quick option, format with the problematic disk plugged in.

[Skyn3t]

@cobito:

RAM is about all the hardware. A RAM failure can manifest in a million ways, from blue screens to graphics failures, a network that doesn't come up, a sound card that is unable to decode AC3 5.1... or an operating system that doesn't know how to mount a hard drive in its corresponding drive at each startup, either because of a communication problem with the controller, because data is corrupted every time it saves the configuration, etc, etc, etc.

The first thing: run a memtest and from there you can start ruling things out.

Or if you feel like the quick option, format with the problematic drive plugged in.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried formatting the drive to the bone, and nothing. I'll try a memtest as you say to see where it comes from... Thanks again!

[cobito]

@Skyn3t:

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried formatting the disk to the bone, and nothing. I'll try a memtest as you say to see where it comes from... Thanks again!

By formatting I mean that you format the system (format + Windows installation).

If the memtest comes out negative, look for a utility like Partition Magic or Paragon Partition Manager, delete all the partitions on the disk and recreate them. But don't use the Windows utility from Administrative Tools.

[Sylver]

Indeed, I would use Partition Magic and delete all the partitions on the disk and create a new one (or a couple to test if the system assigns letters to each partition), formatted of course.

Regards

[Skyn3t]

@Sylver:

Indeed, I would use Partition Magic and delete all the partitions on the disk and create a new one (or a couple to test if the system assigns letters to each partition), formatted of course.

Regards

Puf, well I've tried both Paragon and Partition Magic and there's no way... It's impossible for windows to save me a drive letter... I've tried formatting and making partitions, and nothing

[Sylver]

Scraped controller I think… :nono:

[Skyn3t]

@Sylver:

Scraped controller I think… :nono:

Oh man… not a chance, it picks up all the disks I have without any problems except for that one xD in fact, the little Intel rapid storage program that usually comes with it detects the disk and everything...

I think this disk is only going to be destined for external use...

[packosoft]

@Sylver:

Indeed, I would use Partition Magic and delete all the partitions on the disk and create a new one (or a couple to test if the system assigns letters to each partition), formatted of course.

Regards

15 days of banning face the wall for recommending Partition Magic :ffu:
@Skyn3t:

Well man… not a chance, if it catches me all the disks I have without problems except that one xD in fact, the little program from Intel rapid storage that usually comes detects the disk and everything...

I think this disk is only going to be destined for external use...

have you looked in the system event viewer to see if there is anything?
try assigning it from the command line to see
start->run
diskpart
list disk
select disk X (the number of the disk shown in the previous case)
select partition 1
assign
exit

by the way, you won't give it any'strange' letter, right?

[Sylver]

Joe Packo, that sometimes fixes small disk problems, or just shows you if the partition is screwed up or something. I usually use the one from Hirens Boot when a disk goes crazy…
Besides, you come for me right away, Cobito said it first! :llorar:
xD

Saludos!

EDIT: By the way, I was referring to the internal controller of THAT specific disk.

[Fassou]

Check if your card has multiple controllers, in case it's plugged into one that, when you start Windows, loads additional drivers and then doesn't recover the assigned drive <:(

Come on, plug it into another SATA port ;D

Best regards!

[Skyn3t]

@packosoft:

15 days of being told to face the wall so that you can reflect on recommending Partition Magic :ffu:

have you looked in the system event viewer to see if there is anything?
try assigning it from the command line to see
start->run
diskpart
list disk
select disk X (the number of the disk shown in the previous case)
select partition 1
assign
exit

by the way, you won't give it any'strange' letter, right?

I have already tried with the diskpart and nothing… I assign it the F: or the X: to try... Anyway, I think the disk is somewhat broken, because I hear it make "clack-clack" from time to time randomly... What surprises me is that, despite being damaged, it still works in its own way...

Many thanks for the contribution by the way.

[Skyn3t]

@Fassou:

Check if your card has multiple controllers, in case it's stuck on one that loads additional drivers when you start Windows, and then doesn't recover the assigned drive <:(

Come on, plug it into another SATA port ;D

Cheers!

Yes, I've checked that too. I've plugged it into a sata port where the exact same disk was before, which has never had a problem of this type.

[packosoft]

You won't have another disk of the same model to try changing the controller, will you?