Pending HD failure
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Posted by Fitz on August 14, 2005, 11:28 am
Please log in for more thread options I have a homebuilt system running 3 HD's: 2 SATA Raptors in a RAID 0 config, and an older IBM ATA Deskstar for storing back up data. The ATA disk is partitioned, with 5MB being allocated for Windows (XP Pro) virtual memory. When running Diskeeper (ver 8, updates installed), the RAID config defragments fine, but the ATA drive takes 15-20 minutes, usually freezing for a long period at about 75% complete. It also uses a huge amount of resources- I can't access other programs or even get a menu by clicking on the desktop "Start" icon. The front panel LCD freezes until the defrag process makes it past 85%. Does this sound like a pending disk failure or would moving the data off the disk and reformatting it fix the problem. I've run checkdisk with no errors found and done a "boot-time" defrag. So far, I am able to access and save/edit data on the disk. The disk has about 80% free space. System: Gigabyte K8NNXP w/754 pin AMD64 3200 1 MB (2 X 512 MB) Mushkin 3500 Lvl 1 Antec 430 W power supply ATI 9800 Pro 2 36 GB Raptors (RAID 0) 1 ATA HD Plextor 708A USB 2 cardreader Unibrain Firewire PCI card Crystal Fontz 634 LCD FrontX panel Thanks, Fitz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outgoing mail scanned with AVG 7 and is virus free | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Mxsmanic on August 14, 2005, 9:56 pm
Please log in for more thread options Fitz writes: It sounds like a pending disk failure. If you can run offline diagnostics against it, try those, but the symptoms sound like an impending failure. Make sure you have back-ups. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by jmc on August 19, 2005, 8:38 pm
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Suddenly, without warning, Fitz exclaimed (14-Aug-05 8:28 PM): > I have a homebuilt system running 3 HD's: 2 SATA Raptors in a RAID 0 config,
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> and an older IBM ATA Deskstar for storing back up data. The ATA disk is > partitioned, with 5MB being allocated for Windows (XP Pro) virtual memory. > When running Diskeeper (ver 8, updates installed), the RAID config > defragments fine, but the ATA drive takes 15-20 minutes, usually freezing > for a long period at about 75% complete. It also uses a huge amount of > resources- I can't access other programs or even get a menu by clicking on > the desktop "Start" icon. The front panel LCD freezes until the defrag > process makes it past 85%. Does this sound like a pending disk failure or > would moving the data off the disk and reformatting it fix the problem. I've > run checkdisk with no errors found and done a "boot-time" defrag. So far, I > am able to access and save/edit data on the disk. The disk has about 80% > free space. > > System: > Gigabyte K8NNXP w/754 pin AMD64 3200 > 1 MB (2 X 512 MB) Mushkin 3500 Lvl 1 > Antec 430 W power supply > ATI 9800 Pro > 2 36 GB Raptors (RAID 0) 1 ATA HD > Plextor 708A > USB 2 cardreader > Unibrain Firewire PCI card > Crystal Fontz 634 LCD > FrontX panel > > Thanks, > Fitz > > > Outgoing mail scanned with AVG 7 and is virus free
> > Yes, I'd say your drive is going south. My IBM ATA Deskstar recently died, the warning signs were very subtle - a single SMART warning months ago, a very occassional problem at boot time. No problem with chkdsk or any other diagnostic tho. Then, suddenly - POOF! - it was gone. Seriously. One day I woke up to a BSOD, and that's all she wrote. I'd get the data backed up off it right a way. You could try doing a low-level format on it (might try that on this one) but as far as my drive's concerned, I'd never trust it again with something important. jmc | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Fitz on August 19, 2005, 4:28 pm
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I moved all the data off the drive, ran IBM's Disk Fitness Test, and the drive failed (corrupt sectors). I ran the repair program and the DFT said it was successful. I reformatted the drive using Windows and then copied the data back. Ran Diskeeper, and it went through it in less than 2 minutes. Been a few days now, and so far, all seems well. Since this is a backup drive to my RAID drives, I'll probably continue to use it until someone has a smokin' deal on Maxtor or WD 80GB or larger drives. Thanks for the help... Fitz | ||||||||||||||||
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> and an older IBM ATA Deskstar for storing back up data. The ATA disk is
> partitioned, with 5MB being allocated for Windows (XP Pro) virtual memory.
> When running Diskeeper (ver 8, updates installed), the RAID config
> defragments fine, but the ATA drive takes 15-20 minutes, usually freezing
> for a long period at about 75% complete. It also uses a huge amount of
> resources- I can't access other programs or even get a menu by clicking on
> the desktop "Start" icon. The front panel LCD freezes until the defrag
> process makes it past 85%. Does this sound like a pending disk failure or
> would moving the data off the disk and reformatting it fix the problem.