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Product Finder New Releases New PC Games Laptops Smartphones Routers Storage Motherboards Monitors Forums Recent Activity Today's hard drive test software Posts News Comments TechSpot Forums Forums TechSpot Core Storage Today's Posts My Western Digital 200GB SATA hard drive keepsdisappearing Byperl Oct 9, 2005 I have just installed smart monitoring tools a secon hard drive (a western Digital SATA 200GB 7200rpm) along side my Primary IDE 120GB Maxtor drive which holds windows. Very bizzarly the hard drive appears from time to time in My Computer and then just disappears the next time I boot
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with no seeable pattern to the disappearing act. I have checked all the connections and even replaced all the cables with no look. When it appears in My computer you can access it through XPs admin tools in Computer management but when its not being recognised then it cannot be found in the same admin tools. It also appears to be equally as tempramental in the BIOS and RAID utilities that can be accessed before booting into windows. When it does manage to appear in windows I've managed
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to run Western Digitals Diagnostic tool (data Lifeguard) and ran some test on it and it comes up and says "Error 03 - Read SMART attribute command error". On top of this from time to time when accessing it in windows, a little ballon pop can come up and say there was a "Delayed file write error" on the new hard drive. When I didn't have any data on it I did try to use Data Lifeguard to Zero the drive but it only took 2 hours to do the full 200GB drive which seems a little bit short to me so perhaps it didnt do it properly. Has anyone got any ideas to get this drive working more reliable as I am wanting to stick Linux on it. Thanks Oct 9, 2005 #1 pkroks TS Rookie Posts: 259 what are the specs of the rest of the machine. Oct 9, 2005 #2 perl TS Rookie Topic Starter Yea here are my specs: AMD 64 3200+ Gigabyte GA-k8NXP-Pro/Sli 1024MB PC3200 RAM Connect 3d Radeon X800XL 120GB Maxtor ATA (Primary) 200GB WD Cavier (SATA - the drive that doesnt work) Got some other PCI cards like an AverMedia TV card but this isnt relevant. Oct 9, 2005 #3 perl TS Rookie Topic Starter Everytime is comes up with the file write error though it says that it was on this file "E:\$Mtf" - not sure if this helps? Oct 9, 2005 #4 IronDuke TS Rookie Posts: 856 I'd return the drive as faulty. Oct 10, 2005 #5 ch
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l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS http://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/ ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek How to See if Your Hard Drive is Dying with S.M.A.R.T. Hard drives use S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) to gauge their own http://html5.litten.com/accessing-and-assessing-a-hard-drives-s-m-a-r-t-data/ reliability and determine if they’re failing. You can view your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. data and see if it has started to develop problems. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t have an easy-to-use built-in tool that shows your hard drive hard disk’s S.M.A.R.T. data. We will need a third-party tool to view this information, though there is a way to check your S.M.A.R.T. status from the command prompt. Image Credit: wonderferret on Flickr Use CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo is an easy-to-use, open-source program that can quickly display the S.M.A.R.T. status reported by your hard drive in Windows. You can download it for free – however, be sure to uncheck the hard drive test browser widget when installing it. Once it is installed, all you have to do is launch the CrystalDiskInfo application to view the S.M.A.R.T. status information for your hard drives. If everything is working properly, you should see the status Good displayed. CrystalDiskInfo also displays other information about your hard drive, including its current temperature and hardware specifications. If there is a problem, you can identify what exactly is wrong with the hard drive. If you are particularly paranoid, you can enable the Function –> Resident (to keep CrystalDiskInfo running in your system tray) and Function –> Startup (to have CrystalDiskInfo automatically start with your computer) options to leave CrystalDiskInfo always running in the background. If your S.M.A.R.T. status changes, CrystalDiskInfo will pop up and alert you. Checking S.M.A.R.T. Without Third-Party Tools To do a quick S.M.A.R.T. check without installing any third-party software, you can use a few commands included with Windows. First, open a Command Prompt window. (Press the Windows key, type Command Prompt, and press Enter.) In the Command Prompt window, type the following commands, pressing Enter after each: wmic diskdrive get status If everything is working properly, you should see the status OK displayed. Other statuses can indicate probl
the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take no responsibility for anything you do based on my examples or the information that I provide here. 1.0 Introduction Being able to effectively analyze the S.M.A.R.T. data on a hard disk drive (HDD) enables you to quickly identify problems that can aid you in recovering all of the data from it before it becomes irretrievable or requires significant expense to retrieve. The vast majority of hardware repairs that I do for clients involve problems with hard disk drives. If the computer's BIOS sees the drive okay and it is not making any unusual sounds, the first thing I do is examine the S.M.A.R.T. data on the drive. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and is the hard drive’s record of its internal diagnostic monitoring and usage statistics packaged for being accessed externally. The primary purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to alert us to an impending failure of the drive while there is still time to save the data. When a hard drive reports that the S.M.A.R.T. health is FAILED you must get the important data off of it immediately and not use the drive anymore. IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT DIFFERENT MANUFACTURERS AND DIFFERENT DRIVE MODELS CAN STORE AND DISPLAY DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF S.M.A.R.T. DATA AND CALCULATE VALUES AND TOLERANCES DIFFERENTLY. S.M.A.R.T. data is best used as a general guide. For specifics, the hard drive’s technical documentation must be consulted. Sometimes that information is difficult to come by and can be proprietary. For example, the formulas for how some manufacturers calculate normalized values for attributes can be very difficult to find. Wikipedia entry for S.M.A.R.T. Proper analysis of S.M.A.R.T. data Can help determine if the problem is physical damage or just logical damage. With logical damage, the drive can be trusted and continue to be used after being repaired. With physical damage, you want to get any important data off of the drive and replace it. Helps you choose the best method for recovering all of the data from the drive. Prevents you from accidentally doing things that may make matters worse. In order to check the S.M.A.R.T. data on a HDD The drive should not be making strange clicking or beep