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Shane:
Resetting the card is a good idea as well. I have had memory chips be that way before. Sometimes it just needs a better seat :-)

Could have just got some dust in the slot and it isnt allowing for a good connection.

Shane

TLG11:
I now have a new and much more urgent issue. My E: drive just stopped showing up in Windows. Much of my schoolwork and games were in there... It shows up fine in BIOS but just doesn't work in Windows... I'm feeling terrible from all these issues....  :cry:

Shane:
Ok, check the device manager, does it show up in there?

If it does then go to the Disk Management, does it show up?

Post a screen shot if you can.

Sometimes in Windows, it will simply stop assigning a drive letter to external drives, it is an easy fix if that is what is happening.

Also you always want a backup, which is just a copy of your files. Keep a copy of your work on your computer as well. This way if either dies you have a copy on the other. :wink:

Shane

TLG11:
It shows up in neither. Of what I remember, only C:, D:, G: and a certain partition reserved by the system is there in Disk Management.

I never backed up E: because it was the least used drive I had. In itself it was almost a backup storage for my schoolwork.

It would be odd that this happens. All program and game icons from E: were normal when I started the PC. Only much later did I see that there was no E:. I tried restarting, but after that all the icons leading to E: were pictureless and suggests that this occured while the PC was on today.

EDIT: I looked in Event Logger. It mentions finding an error with the controller on \Device\Ide\IdePort2, followed by "\Device\Harddisk3\DR3 is not yet ready for access." (Roughly translated). Then following that there are three warnings that an error was detected on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 when doing a switch action (or something).

My guess would be that something with the cable or power might be the culprit. What do you think?

EDIT 2: I found that Windows wants to update the Universal Serial Bus (it's icon got a yellow triangle warning on it). It refers to a broken link, but I found it later on ASUS homepage. That could not have caused the issue could it?

HELP!!!!! MY D: DRIVE ALSO DISAPPEARED NOW!

Shane:
Those errors can also mean a bad drive.

Do you have anything int he device manager with a yellow ! on it?

If so post a screen shot for me.

Shane

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