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I have also started losing power to internal SATA hard drives on an intermittent basis.
On reboot BIOS showed the SATA ports as empty.
When they are still connected with the same SATA and power cables that were working 5 minutes earlier.
With these hard drives not spinning up...
I will let you know when sorted. I am just trying to get Linux Mint installed - I think it could days - looks complicated - I suspect I will have a good solid connection with Linux. We shall see.
Hi pete.i.
Thanks for your response. I have a brand new PC with all new connectors and new hard drives. So have lost power with many power connectors and connection points on 2 PCs. The old PC was just external USB hard drives. The new PC has internal SATA hard drives as-well as SSD for...
I have tried searching on this forum and googling on the web but have not found anything about losing connections during backups so I am starting a new thread.
I am running Windows 10 on a new PC. The operating system runs from a Samsung 250 GB SSD. The PC was supplied with Windows 10 installed...