I had a problem last night where I uninstalled vmware and then did a restart. The pc seemed to hang during the restart so eventually I had to hit the reset button on the case. The pc would not boot up after this. In the bios the F3 spinpoint 1T hard drive was not detected. I ended up taking the sata lead out of the motherboard and checking the connection on the drive itself. There were no obvious problems and when I rebooted after that it worked OK. Does anyone have any idea why this might have happened in the first place? I've never lost a drive like that on my old pc (8 years old, ide connections) Are sata connections reliable?
Weird things can happen when you reset without shutting down. If it hasn't happened since, and all is well, I wouldn't worry about it. I've never had an issue with SATA connections. They've always been reliable for me.
I've never known my old pc to take so long to close down, so I assumed it had hung, took this way out. (my new pc is about 8 times faster than my old one) I'll keep my fingers crossed it doesn't happen again.
Win7 does take longer to shutdown than Vista.. on this machine anyway. What's your idea of a long time? Mine stays on the blue shutdown screen for anything from 10 to 30 seconds, depending on how many resources I was using at the time.
I've had a SATA connection slip... it wasn't holding correctly. Caused the same error you had. Now, the question is why did it slip? I still haven't figured that one out.
Vibrations? That's what I've put it down to when it's happened to me. That or when I bump into my case with my wheely chair... You can get SATA leads which have clips on them, I've switched to using only those now after a few issues with normal ones (also means when your tinkering inside the case you can't knock them out accidently).
The hard drive was not detected at all and you did a 'warm' reset? It sounds like the microcontroller on the HD had a problem so it would not respond over SATA. The only way to reset the HD in that case is to remove power from it since it can't respond to any reset commands. That's why the reset button did not fix it, but it came back after turning the computer off (to check the cables), then back on.
My old pc was XP sp3 ans shut down pretty quickly. I left it for 5-10mins and got impatient as it was 12.15am and I was up for work again at 5am. There were no vibrations or bumps. Splynncryth - that sounds a good enough reason to me.
