SATA Port Problem

[dhruv17singhal]

Hi,

I have an Intel DG41RQ motherboard with 4 SATA ports. I have a Seagate Barracuda (500GB 7200rpm) drive connected to port 0 of the motherboard and it works perfectly fine. Windows 7 64-bit is installed on that drive. I intend to install an identical drive for backups and linux-testing.

My problem is that whenever I connect a drive to port 1 (2nd port) and boot the computer, the motherboard detects it, the OS boots-up, but after sometime (about 5 to 15 minutes) the hard disk disappears from the OS (including the Device Manager).

I believe the problem is hardware, and not software, related since this happens with all drives I connect to the port. Skimming through some websites, I read that there is a rule to connect OS-drive to ports 0 & 1 (1st and 2nd ports), and data-drives to ports 2 & 3 (3rd and 4th ports). So, is this correct? If yes, please explain what it is and why? If no, please suggest some solution (hardware, software, or firmware).

Also, I would like to know from where I can buy a SATA PCI-card in India online.

Thanks in advance for help.

[Nutty]

I think this is something related to the hard drive which might be not working with the issue of yours. To check for the possible error i will advise you to go with the below given steps which will help you with the same. So if you can then go through the same and see whether it is working with the issue of yours or not.

• Right click my computer
• Select Manage from context menu
• Now click on Event Viewer
• Select System
• Look for the DISK
• Read then info on the RED Circle X if there is any.

[dhruv17singhal]

Thanks for reply. I did as you told me and found lots of errors (some of them reproduced below) many pertaining to "NTFS" and "disk". I'll look into this futhur. I forgot to mention that the latest hard disk I tried, a new one, was malfunctioning in a similar way and when I ran SeaTools for Windows (a utility to check hard disk health, from Seagate), the "brand new" hard disk FAILED the Short Drive Self Test. So, I sent it back for a replacement. I'll let you know about my progress.

The Errors:

(most of them have this message)
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1."

(some have this message)
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy101."

(few have this, but this message is unrelated as it mentions my external drive)
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume FreeAgent Drive."

[Avikshit Sinha]

Seems that something is wrong with the hard disk. You will have to do various things for resolving the issues :

1. Type:
2. msconfig and sending in the search box in the start menu.
3. Go to Start.
4. Remove all checkmarks not those of the antivirus.
5. By ok.
6. Do not reboot.
7. Go to the Services section.
8. Put the checkmark to hide all Microsoft services.
9. Disable all others.
10. By ok.
11. Do not reboot.
12. Go to C: \ windows \ prefetch
13. Delete all files (including folder ReadyBoot that will be recreated)
14. unless the file Layout.ini.
15. Go to C: \ windows \ temp
16. Delete all files deleted.
17. Control Panel> Internet Options, click Delete to clean up
18. temporary and history.
19. By ok.
20. Empty trash.
21. Restart.