HDD fail??

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GBcf

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Hey people,

I think i have a problem. Today I couldn't get to half of the files on my storage HDD.

Most of them were corrupt or unreadable. Also files that do open, take about half a minute to open... When I try to copy files from the storage HDD to het main HDD it takes forever. The HDD doesn't make any strange noise, so a physical failure doesn't seem the problem...

About two weeks ago it automatically checked for issues with this HDD before starting windows. It was a process that happend every time I started the pc. I soved this issue by doing an error check in windows on that disk. I read about it on microsofts website and they said it was probably a problem with the disk configuration that the "dirty" bit was set to positive. Via error check it indeed stopped the issue.

Yesterday i was watching a movie, and every 15 minutes or so it stopped playing, leaving me to wait for about a minute and continue. Also some of the folders in het explorer didn't show up right away, but needed me to restart the explorer before showing up.

At this moment it is checking for problems via disk propperties ----> tools ----> error checking again. Its running for about 4 hours now and is approx 15% done. Maby this gives a sollution...

Hopefully someone could give me some advice... becouse the most important files like old familly pictures and data for my job doesn't open anymore... This really s*cks man:S

Cheers,

DJ
 
i see in your sig - you have a green & black in raid-0 !!! is this correct?

if so... there is your problem.... a 5400rpm mixed with a 7200rpm..... they will bottleneck
 
dugdiamond said:
i see in your sig - you have a green & black in raid-0 !!! is this correct?

if so... there is your problem.... a 5400rpm mixed with a 7200rpm..... they will bottleneck
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LOL I looked on his profile but I didn't even see that sig
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WD then, if Dug's suggestion is not the issue have a look at the diagnostic tool
 
Haha no ofcourse not, I have two caviar blacks in raid 0 and one caviar green as my storage drive.

The caviar green is the one that fails.

At this moment I am running "Recuva" from Piriform... but it takes three days to scan for documents only... And I still have to scan for pictures, programs and movies after this scan:S:S

If this doesn't work I'll have a look at diagnostic tool...

Seriously... if someone reads this and has important files on his system without having it backed up, make shure that is the first thing you do. I thought it would never happen to me, but here I am... damn it...
 
is your WD Green a advanced sector format model (4K sectors instead of 512B)? if yes, is she aligned well?
 
BaMb1N0 said:
is your WD Green a advanced sector format model (4K sectors instead of 512B)? if yes, is she aligned well?
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I don't know... how do I figure that out, and if it is set wrong how do I align it properly?

To me its kinda strange that the drive works fine for 17 months and all the sudden starts to malfunction...

Thanks,

DJ
 
not everything is guaranteed to last a lifetime

you have have just been one of the many unlucky people whose HHDs die at a young age.

...it isn't as if the WD green is expensive.... very easy to replace
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[if a lightbulb manufacturer made a product that lasts forever, they would not be in business very long!!!]
 
i think someone has knock your PC, causing the headers to damage the platters, and not told you
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there used to be an old DOS utility called "park_heads" = invaluable when moving drives/rigs

(it basically moved the headers off the platters - so that jerky movement could not damage the drive)
 
AHAA I got one for you fellas!

Ok, so with recuva I got about 80% of the files back, including most of the importand files... so succes right?? This evening I RMAed the HDD and went back home to do a clean install on the caviar blacks in raid0, and for the main time use those drives for storage also...

But then during installation it didnt see any drive...
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So I looked around the bios, trying to figure it out, but no luck. After some time I decided that I remove the raid, and try to reinstall it on the Marvell sata3 ports like it was before. But it could only detect one of the drives...
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No matter if it was sata port 6, or 7(wich are the sata3 ports), it just didnt detect one of the drives. Than I decided to put the undetected drive on one of the sata2 ports on the ICH10R chipset and boom it was detected right away!! Do you get this??

So one drive works on both the sata3 and sata2 ports and the other does only work on the sata2 ports... This is very strange becouse the system still worked in raid0 before. I tried all possible ways, all ports, cables etc etc all combinations... no luck...

Please if someone knows what is going on here, I would be glad to hear...

DJ
 
sataIII (6gbps) storage devices are backward compatible... but only with the new sataIII cables

so...

sataIII storage, via a sataIII cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will work (but only sataIII ports get full speed)

sataIII storage, via a sataI/II cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)

sataI/II storage, via ANY sata cable, to sataIII port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)​

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Actually, my HDD makes a little noise under heavy read/write operations, should I run the Align Utility? To me, it sounds as if there is some sort of malfunction going on, but I've backed everything up so I could always wait and see
 
dugdiamond said:
sataIII (6gbps) storage devices are backward compatible... but only with the new sataIII cables

so...

sataIII storage, via a sataIII cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will work (but only sataIII ports get full speed)

sataIII storage, via a sataI/II cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)

sataI/II storage, via ANY sata cable, to sataIII port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)​

rolleyes.gif
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I have a Sata II drive running on a Sata III port with a Sata II cable and it works fine
 
GBcf said:
AHAA I got one for you fellas!

Ok, so with recuva I got about 80% of the files back, including most of the importand files... so succes right?? This evening I RMAed the HDD and went back home to do a clean install on the caviar blacks in raid0, and for the main time use those drives for storage also...

But then during installation it didnt see any drive...
angry.gif
So I looked around the bios, trying to figure it out, but no luck. After some time I decided that I remove the raid, and try to reinstall it on the Marvell sata3 ports like it was before. But it could only detect one of the drives...
huh.gif
No matter if it was sata port 6, or 7(wich are the sata3 ports), it just didnt detect one of the drives. Than I decided to put the undetected drive on one of the sata2 ports on the ICH10R chipset and boom it was detected right away!! Do you get this??

So one drive works on both the sata3 and sata2 ports and the other does only work on the sata2 ports... This is very strange becouse the system still worked in raid0 before. I tried all possible ways, all ports, cables etc etc all combinations... no luck...

Please if someone knows what is going on here, I would be glad to hear...

DJ
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Sounds like a faulty controller
 
dugdiamond said:
sataIII (6gbps) storage devices are backward compatible... but only with the new sataIII cables

so...

sataIII storage, via a sataIII cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will work (but only sataIII ports get full speed)

sataIII storage, via a sataI/II cable, to any sataI/II/III port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)

sataI/II storage, via ANY sata cable, to sataIII port, will NOT work (drive not recognised)​

rolleyes.gif
Click to expand...

Then why do my SATA II F3s work on SATA III ports?
 
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