Most new bios let you adjust the wait time for the drive to respond. Try increasing the time until it detects correctly each time. I had a SSD that used to do that and that's how I fixed it. If not that, drives probably going south.
lopaka ________________________________ From: Thane Sherrington <th...@computerconnectionltd.com> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tue, May 28, 2013 11:04:56 AM Subject: [H] Odd hard drive issue I have a WD SATA drive that passes all SMART tests, and appears to work fine, but when I cold boot, it doesn't detect (and I get a boot disk error). If I immediately warm boot, it detects and boots up fine. It does this in two PCs, so it's the drive, not the machine. Any ideas? T
