Akubane
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Yo,
Just lookin for some opinions I suppose.
I've got a nearly brand new seagate 1tb hd giving me some troubles. (It was bound to happen after spreading seagate propaganda every chance i got lol)
Never had this happen to a hard drive before so i'm just wondering if the problem sounds liek it can be fixed through home diagnostics, or if I've actually got to pull out the manufacturers warranty.
Problem: I was watching an episode of an anime series (Kiddy Grade, AVI), the player froze (mplayerclassic), I heard a series of loud clicking-type noises from the hard drive (kinda sounded like... skipping?) then.. nothing. I had to end process on MPC. I then opened windows drive managment to see if there was a quick diagnostics tool to run (no).
So I opened up my computer to see if I could still browse drive.. and it vanished from the list right in front of me.
I said Ok not good, opened CHKDSK and set to check on reboot. It scanned my other seagte 1tb, no errors (TOOK 3 BLOODY HOURS LoL) and then.... didnt scan the 2nd! The one i actually wanted scanned.
Booted up, still no drive.
Shut down, swapped SATA cables and SATA power cables from one hard drive to the other, and vice versa. Rebooted again.
Voila. Vista reinstalls hard-drive drivers, reboot, and disc is there. I can browse and run the files.
What do you think? Think its just some bad sectors or hd errors that I can fix using seagates diagnostics.. or you think it's something more physical that might really give me grief? I don't know how long this will keep running before crashign and killign off my data.
Oddly enough my brand new lite-on dl dvd drive is failing on every disc so i cant even back-up the 800 gigs of anime I have stored on the drive. (yeah thats right. LOL)
I don't know how long it'll last XD
I can't run the diagnostics untill tomorrow since my burner is failing and I have no floppys (Why the heck can't you boot from a thumb drive? are we really in 2010? bleck)
Sorry for the wall-of-text. A bit stressed. Took a long time to search and download that collection lol
Are there any diagnostics/repair tools that I can run from windows? The bad hard drive is just storage, theres nothing installed on it and it has nothing specifically to do with windows so I don't see why it couldn't be checked while running, since it isn't even being accessed.
Anyway thanks for any insight.
Just lookin for some opinions I suppose.
I've got a nearly brand new seagate 1tb hd giving me some troubles. (It was bound to happen after spreading seagate propaganda every chance i got lol)
Never had this happen to a hard drive before so i'm just wondering if the problem sounds liek it can be fixed through home diagnostics, or if I've actually got to pull out the manufacturers warranty.
Problem: I was watching an episode of an anime series (Kiddy Grade, AVI), the player froze (mplayerclassic), I heard a series of loud clicking-type noises from the hard drive (kinda sounded like... skipping?) then.. nothing. I had to end process on MPC. I then opened windows drive managment to see if there was a quick diagnostics tool to run (no).
So I opened up my computer to see if I could still browse drive.. and it vanished from the list right in front of me.
I said Ok not good, opened CHKDSK and set to check on reboot. It scanned my other seagte 1tb, no errors (TOOK 3 BLOODY HOURS LoL) and then.... didnt scan the 2nd! The one i actually wanted scanned.
Booted up, still no drive.
Shut down, swapped SATA cables and SATA power cables from one hard drive to the other, and vice versa. Rebooted again.
Voila. Vista reinstalls hard-drive drivers, reboot, and disc is there. I can browse and run the files.
What do you think? Think its just some bad sectors or hd errors that I can fix using seagates diagnostics.. or you think it's something more physical that might really give me grief? I don't know how long this will keep running before crashign and killign off my data.
Oddly enough my brand new lite-on dl dvd drive is failing on every disc so i cant even back-up the 800 gigs of anime I have stored on the drive. (yeah thats right. LOL)
I don't know how long it'll last XD
I can't run the diagnostics untill tomorrow since my burner is failing and I have no floppys (Why the heck can't you boot from a thumb drive? are we really in 2010? bleck)
Sorry for the wall-of-text. A bit stressed. Took a long time to search and download that collection lol
Are there any diagnostics/repair tools that I can run from windows? The bad hard drive is just storage, theres nothing installed on it and it has nothing specifically to do with windows so I don't see why it couldn't be checked while running, since it isn't even being accessed.
Anyway thanks for any insight.