Extremly big isue!!!

[Dr. House]

....10 minutes ago my Edrive suddenly disapeared and i cant go on wc3 now or acces any files on the E drive simply cause i cant see it. Its prolly dead or something but i would like to know if there is a temporary option to burn my files from the drive or get it back to work. Help is appriciated.

 

[Ironside]

so is this E drive an USB or a hard drive?

 

[Dr. House]

its a Hard drive and this morning i had it running again and now it disapeared yet again :s

 

[Slayer14]

Hmm. Well, I'm probably not as good as Ironside with computers, but I have many computer problems that ended up fixing on my own and I have never thrown a computer out just because it stopped working. I'd always end up fixing it.

But nevermind that. I have something you could try that might be the answer. If you can go to My Computer (or Computer depending on which version of Windows you have, assuming you have Windows), try clicking on that address bar at the top of the window and type in -> E: <- That's just something you can try, though I've never had that problem before and thus I don't really know if that could fix the problem.

Hope this helps.

 

[Dr. House]

It cant find it

 

[BlargHonk]

Open your computer and see if it is connected properly, look for something like this: http://tech.icrontic.com/draco/images/articles/how_hard_drives_work/enclosure.jpg

Should be at least 2 cables going into it, make sure they aren't loose.

 

[Slayer14]

Open your computer and see if it is connected properly, look for something like this: http://tech.icrontic.com/draco/images/articles/how_hard_drives_work/enclosure.jpg

Should be at least 2 cables going into it, make sure they aren't loose.

Yes, that could easily be the problem since you're saying that your E drive is appearing and disappearing by itself, especially if you cannot access your My Documents (assuming it is on the E drive).

 

[TheKurt009]

what to doptional
-first! pray "oh please oh please work you stupid hardrive"(works for me! of course you need to do something first!)
-check the cables connecting the hardrive if it's loosened.
-check the directory for E:\
-plug out the hardrive and switch the cable with another hardrive
-if it appeared, quickly make a backup files to make sure if it disappeared again.
-well, might want to restart the computer?(just checking)

 

[Dr. House]

Well actually i restarted my comp yesterday and in this morning it worked but right on this moment it doesnt and i already made backups when it was back. And nope it cant find E:\

 

[Ironside]

Do as they said, check if the cables are connected correctly.

 

[Zombie]

There's also a crucial issue here indicating that you apparently don't know how to write a double s.

 

[Dr. House]

The 2 cables are connected correctly. I checked my Bios to see if it shows the drive there but it doesn´t

 

[BlargHonk]

Now try switching the cables to a different IDE/SATA port on the mainboard

If that doesn't work, try replacing the cables with ones you know work.

And if that don't work, probably dead

 

[Dr. House]

I think it might be the power cable of the sata drive since i see that its snapped... So gona get a new cable see if that solves anything. Appriciate the help.

 

[BlargHonk]

Well thars your problem son.