Internal drive disappears after 15 minutes running ' G:/Users/SAM/Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable'... etc.

Hey everybody,

This is my first post here, and it's because of a terrible problem that I have where one of my internal drives disappear literally just from my computer after about 15 minutes of my computer.  If I restart the computer the drive will return, but then disappear just after 15 minutes of use.  If I remove the drive and connect it to an USB hard drive docking station, it will show well here.  It's just a 250 GB SATA drive.  The only thing I can think is that I use it to store all personal files that are usually stored on the system C:\ drive.  When I installed the OS a few years ago, I went through the steps to get my data off the drive system in the event of a crash.  I doubt that could be the cause of the problem because it has worked well for a long time like that?  I remember having to do weird things in the registry or something to get the users folder to point to another drive.

The problem exists since probably almost a year now...  It got so fed up of this office that I just stopped using it and started using my macbook exclusively for about a year.  I'm starting to use this computer for backups because it can hold much more (and more numerous hard drives) that the macbook could dream to).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
-Sam

If it works in a dock and the dock is a dock motor, it is the motherboard, or a connector failed

Although G: might suggest that you have several internal hard drives and if so, you can check if the power supply is charged.

And no it's not a victory to issue.

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