location (drive) unavailable - what the...?

[novicegeek]

Hi all,

So, I just turned on my computer a few days back and got the message saying that the location of my drive is unavailable. See below. Sorry, I'd attach it in a file, but the place where I save my pics is on said drive.




So, a little explanation: my desktop has two hard drives. The C drive is where most of my stuff is located, but I later added the K drive for more storage (neither are network drives). It worked great until now. When it first happened, I moved the connections a little, because I felt that the SATA cable going into the motherboard was coming into the motherboard at a bit of an angle. The first few times I adjusted the cable and turned the computer on, it worked. Then, when that no longer provided the results I was looking for, I swap out SATA cables and it's back to the drive being unavailable again.

The K Drive is still showing in the navigation pane in Windows Explorer, but of course, it provides me this message when I try to click it. When I ask, Command Prompt looks at me like it doesn't know what I'm talking about.

Both hard drives are Samsung EVO 850s with C: being 500GB and K: being 1TB.

Does anyone have an idea of what I might do next? I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks all.

 

[johnb35]

Use a different sata port, the existing one may be faulty.

 

[novicegeek]

Of course. You know, at one point, I that did briefly crossed my mind, but then it just as quickly passed. I'm trying that now. Thanks, John.

 

[novicegeek]

My motherboard has six SATA ports, five of which are in use. I moved one cable over and stuck the cable for the K Drive in port I just pulled a cable out of, but I'm sorry to report that did not work. More frustrating by the minute.

 

[beers]

Usually 'swap cable swap port' is the extent of it unless you had a USB enclosure or adapter to also test with.

I'd see if you even get anything in fdisk but otherwise if you replace a known good device on the end of a known good run with this one and it doesn't function, it may simply have given up the ghost. Do you see anything in Samsung Magician?