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| Thread ID: 93734 | 2008-09-29 02:17:00 | Beginning of the End? | Thebananamonkey (7741) | Press F1 |
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| 708515 | 2008-09-29 02:17:00 | My RAID config program says: "A hard drive has reported that a read of write to it has failed" It goes on to suggest I back up my data... Don't need to tell me twice. What's happening here? Do I need to get one of my HDD's replaced? Given that my system is based on a RAID0, I'm assuming this is a very bad sign. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 708516 | 2008-09-29 04:02:00 | It would be best to check your drive's S.M.A.R.T. status first. Go to www.sysinfolab.com and download SMARTUDM. Put it on a floppy (or bootable USB), and run it. At the end it will ask you if you want to print the generated report. (press R). Do that for both(?) disks-it's RAID 0 right?- and post it here. It's not always so easy to interpret the S.M.A.R.T. record, took me a few thousand drives here at work-"it's not science, it's an art" like somebody said. You can read it yourself with notepad, occasionally is pretty straightforward: T.E.C. predicts failure or a few millions of reallocated sectors, but that is not always the case. |
georgeks (9122) | ||
| 708517 | 2008-09-29 07:47:00 | I don't have a floppy drive on the comp, and I'm not having any joy booting this sucker on a thumbdrive. Any tips? Does this mean that the HDD is physically failing? Or is a soft/firmware problem? Does one error mean the end of the world? Because the "A drive in a RAID 0 volume is failing" isn't a nice sign. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 708518 | 2008-09-29 09:44:00 | Do you have an NVIDIA chipset? If yes then download the latest drivers and from the NVIDIA control panel you can check your drive's status. If the controler is Intel, they have a utility at their site. | georgeks (9122) | ||
| 708519 | 2008-09-29 19:21:00 | Eek, RAID 0!!, twice the chance of a failure! Do an image now.....! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 708520 | 2008-09-29 19:29:00 | Quick, change it to RAID 1! :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 708521 | 2008-09-29 19:31:00 | Now a friend of mine's lappie had the warning that the HD is suspect, press F1 to continue for about a year now, with no problem. I think it's a software glitch, which will probably disappear after I reformat his HD. All tests showed no problems. Can't tell you what kind of hardware he's got (can't remember) but surely if such a message pops up a failure is imminent? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 708522 | 2008-09-29 20:19:00 | Eek, RAID 0!!, twice the chance of a failure! Do an image now.....! I would do, but unfortunately, for the moment I have nothing to image to... Thinking of buying a 1TB drive, and getting the drives moved across. Could I do this myself do you think? Or should I get a computer store to do it for me? Should I talk to ascent (who I bought the HDD from) and get them to give me a replacement HDD? |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 708523 | 2008-09-30 11:44:00 | Now a friend of mine's lappie had the warning that the HD is suspect, press F1 to continue for about a year now, with no problem. I think it's a software glitch, which will probably disappear after I reformat his HD. All tests showed no problems. Can't tell you what kind of hardware he's got (can't remember) but surely if such a message pops up a failure is imminent? sarel Depends what kind of tests you ran... |
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