Now perhaps my computer problems were not the SATA connector on the motherboard. I sure hope not, because if one fails…how soon before others? I say this because in the efforts of installing the new HD, I needed to shuffle drives around in an attempt to save any important data. So I was able to move 1TB home drive to 2TB home drive with no problems.
However, I was unable to retrieve X-Plane-11 data from small 160GB HD. No matter where I put it, by switching SATA cables…it would hang my system. Wouldn’t even get to the BIOS screen. I had just recently started fooling with X-Plane-11 after a long break. It was the only thing of meaning…I think, on that HD.
So I once again change my guess as to my system failure…the 160GB HD. Yes I probably didn’t need to buy another HD. However it’s not going to waste, and I have an additional 2 TB of space. And isn’t it just easier to add more space than to clean up all of my clutter?