lost access to my sata drive

[sgopus]

I have been able to make regular backups via an external sata drive, but
lately I've lost my access to the drive.
the bios says it's there, but windows takes forever to boot when the drive
is connected, not sure why, it usually doesn't take that long, I think one of
the recent windows updates has messed up my sata drivers, has anybody else
experienced this?
Fortunetly the drive is also USB, it just takes loads longer to access the
data.

 

[sgopus]

problem resolved, it was a bad sata data cable, my cats had been using it to
practice pouncing on snakes, and had chewed into the cable, thankfully I had
another sata data cable to try. it works.