Disk Read Error

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Keep getting disk read errors just after POST on my ITX rig, which was running fine overclocked before I took it to school. Now I never even got to use it because they thought I'd hack their network just by hooking it up to their monitor

but not sure if the vibrations of walking with it in an appropriate bag and the polystyriene have shaken the header unsteady. I've lowered everything to stock from a modest overclock. It doesn't matter what the BIOS settings are I boot up once, shut down, then turn on again and fails to boot (always POSTs though).

Any ideas? I had overclocked the RAM but don't forget the system does boot but only after about 6 or 7 attempts, then once it's running it's fine. Hasn't done this until I took it to school.

- Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3

- GSkill Ripjaws 1600Mhz

- Samsung HD501LJ 500GB 7200rpm 16MB cache

- Windows 7 Professional x64

- 300w Xenta PSU

It's currently running F@H

 

[sheroo]

Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive?

 

[KaraMurat]

I would suggest to use this program to check the state of your hdd.

It's likely the hdd could have encountered some shock while being transported.

If the computer doesn't boot at the time of reading this, you could also try this, it has a disk heath monitor just like the program above but is a live environment in linux.

Good luck, also I would suggest possibly holding off any heavy pc work & folding + back up of data for now, until you figure out the problem.

And as sheroo pointed out, a chkdsk may be a good idea, but I would recommend to check hdd out first.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Already used CrystalDisk and finds nothing wrong with it.

As for the data there's nothing valuable on there. I'll just put it in sleep mode and hopefuly should work the next session - will get back to you.

Oh and the folding is okayish - in two hours 2% of GPU (~2 day deadline) and 1% of SMP (~8 day deadline) was done.

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Will a defrag help?

 

[KaraMurat]

Not really no, a defrag moves files around the disk so they can be accessed faster.

Disk read errors are usually due to bad sectors (physical damage to the disk within the drive *case I mean)

Just a slight note:

Some disk health monitor tools and the ones I linked above are no exception, may say the disk is fine and has passed all tests but in actual fact the disk may have problems but are within the threshold of the hdd, normally this would not be a problem but you never know.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Not really no, a defrag moves files around the disk so they can be accessed faster.

Disk read errors are usually due to bad sectors (physical damage to the disk within the drive *case I mean)

Just a slight note:

Some disk health monitor tools and the ones I linked above are no exception, may say the disk is fine and has passed all tests but in actual fact the disk may have problems but are within the threshold of the hdd, normally this would not be a problem but you never know.

Annoying - SSDs are still stupidly low capacity and the pigs in suits are still pretending they were affected by the Tiawan floods as far as HDDs go

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Update: seems to be fixed, I set the boot priority to CD-ROM even though I have no CD drive for the system and yet it boots fine every time that way. Peculiar.

Got a BSOD at my overclocked settings but got it on stock now except 1333Mhz Ram, will see how it holds up folding again.