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What's causing an eSATA external storage drive to disappear from thedrives list?



 
 
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Old October 2nd 16, 07:03 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default What's causing an eSATA external storage drive to disappear from thedrives list?

Okay, Windows 10 AU, I'm trying to transfer some stuff off of internal
drives to an external drive through an eSATA connection. The external
drive is in pretty good health, SMART only finds one bad sector on it,
but as I try to copy stuff onto it, it just seems to drop out of the
drive list. I have to turn it off and on again to see it again!

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Old October 2nd 16, 06:07 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rod Speed
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Default What's causing an eSATA external storage drive to disappear from the drives list?

Yousuf Khan wrote

Okay, Windows 10 AU, I'm trying to transfer some stuff off of internal
drives to an external drive through an eSATA connection. The external
drive is in pretty good health, SMART only finds one bad sector on it,
but as I try to copy stuff onto it, it just seems to drop out of the
drive list. I have to turn it off and on again to see it again!


Most likely the power isnt being reliably delivered to the drive.

Can also be the data connection isnt reliable too.

eSATA does allow hot swap so its likely decided it has been removed.
 




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