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marko:
I've got either a ventilation problem, a hard drive problem, or a motherboard problem. Either way, it's no fun. I'm going with ventilation to start with....

One of my drives keeps going AWOL, and when it does, the whole system goes mental, then crashes, and when I finally get it to boot again, and chkdisk has run, half a dozen apps have corrupted settings files that need restored from backups.



 >:(

JimH:
Get a good backup.  My money is on the drive.

rjm:
SpinRite http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm works as advertised.

My mother-in-law's laptop drive quit a few days ago and SpinRite repaired it in a couple hours. I still changed out the drive to be safe but SpinRite successfully recovered all the data so it was easy for me to clone it to a new drive.

marko:

--- Quote from: JimH on November 27, 2008, 10:26:51 am ---Get a good backup.  My money is on the drive.

--- End quote ---
You might be right...

Copying files to another drive on the LAN, I'm only getting 4Mb/s transfer speeds from the dodgy drive.
Copying from any other drive to the same LAN drive yields just shy of 10Mb/s.

So, fair to say I've either got a drive with one foot in the grave, or a dodgy SATA controller on the motherboard.
Does anyone happen to know if the six SATA ports on the MoBo are independant of each other, or do they all have the same controller?

If one controller takes care of the six SATA ports, fair to assume the HD's on its last legs?

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If the drive is knackered, that makes that the second Seagate 500 Gb drive to give up on me this year, and they were both bought in May 2007.
The first one got RMA'd under warrenty due to S.M.A.R.T. errors.

You know you're getting old when you start saying things like "They don't make things like they used to..."
Our very first PC, bought over eight years ago came with a whopping 15Gb hard drive. It was a Quantum Fireball. That PC was broken up for parts, and that 15Gb drive is still working just fine in a PC I built for my daughter about three years ago. The nVidia Riva TNT2 with 32Mb memory still works just fine too, though that's currently wrapped in an anti-static bag in my 'box of bits' that the wife is so keen to throw out with the rubbish!!!

I've got no cash for a new hard drive, boohoo.
Hopefully I can get this resolved with Seagate without putting my fighting head on (if it is indeed a faulty HD).
Why do things always start breaking down at Christmas time?  ::)

-marko

KingSparta:

--- Quote ---If the drive is knackered, that makes that the second Seagate 500 Gb drive to give up on me this year, and they were both bought in May 2007
--- End quote ---

They May Be Left Over Maxtor Drives.

If I Am Not Mistaken Most Seagate Drives Come With A 5 Year Guarantee (I Bought 3 Segate 500 Gig Drives In The Past Year, And That's What Is On My Box).

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