D drive dissappears

Megahertz · 12 Sep 2023

Everything seems to be in good condition.

Hikertrash · 12 Sep 2023

Megahertz said:

Everything seems to be in good condition.

Yeah, it was gone when I woke up this morning and had to reboot. It's happened about 4-6 times recently.

dalchina · 12 Sep 2023

Did you check Automount then?

Megahertz · 12 Sep 2023

Intermittent failures are the worst to solve. They come and go.

HDDs are dead tech. With the SATA SSDs prices falling I would think of a SSD replacement.
1T 2.5"SSD

Hikertrash · 13 Sep 2023

I have a sneaking suspicion that the problem may be somehow related to Prime video app.

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Hikertrash said:

I have a sneaking suspicion that the problem may be somehow related to Prime video app.

Nope, probably not caused by Prime app. Still investigating. A further problem is it didn't show up after reboot. It did on a second attempt.

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dalchina said:

Did you check Automount then?

I did check automount when D drive was missing, still enabled.

dalchina · 13 Sep 2023

Thanks. Obviously worth swapping the drive just to try to eliminate it.

Hikertrash · 13 Sep 2023

dalchina said:

Thanks. Obviously worth swapping the drive just to try to eliminate it.

Are the check marks from Hard Disk Sentinel?

dalchina · 13 Sep 2023

Most probably. Stop running HDS. See what happens.

Hikertrash · 13 Sep 2023

dalchina said:

Most probably. Stop running HDS. See what happens.

Good idea. That was it!

dalchina · 13 Sep 2023

Note: there is an option:

It is rather a good idea to monitor drives so you get an early alert to degradation. HDS can do this in a couple of ways and alert you accordingly; don't want to pay or use the recent giveaway? Crystal Diskinfo (much more basic) can also do this.