- Jan 10, 2007
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I have two identical SATA hard drives. About two months ago I woke up to an operating system not found message on what appeared to be a DOS Prompt (but was most likely a motherboard message.) When I hit reset, I heard the clicks of death. When I shut the computer off and restarted it, everything booted as normal.
Obviously this is a bad sign. These drives are brand new. I have continued to use the drives for the past two months so I could monitor for any issues, as the data on the drive that appears to be having the issue is backed up, and not overly critical. Everything seems to be OK now, and I haven't run into a problem since the first meltdown. Yesterday I opened a folder to pull up some files, but whatever program I use says they're not there, or that they're invalid. I am trying to find some empirical evidence that this drive is truly failing.
Thus far I have run a checkdisk on both drives and the partition, and I have run disk defragmenter. Could someone please advise me of any other utilities or programs I can use to check these drives. Everything comes back OK. SMART says the drives are great. Checkdisk says there are no bad sectors at all. Defrag doesn't show any bad clusters on either of the drives.
I have two HDD's. One of them is partitioned. Could this somehow be causing my problem? Worst case scenario, I'll contact WDC and get a replacement RA'ed out to me and I'll probably invest in a third HDD, because I'm anally retentive and redundant to a flaw.
Thanks all.
Obviously this is a bad sign. These drives are brand new. I have continued to use the drives for the past two months so I could monitor for any issues, as the data on the drive that appears to be having the issue is backed up, and not overly critical. Everything seems to be OK now, and I haven't run into a problem since the first meltdown. Yesterday I opened a folder to pull up some files, but whatever program I use says they're not there, or that they're invalid. I am trying to find some empirical evidence that this drive is truly failing.
Thus far I have run a checkdisk on both drives and the partition, and I have run disk defragmenter. Could someone please advise me of any other utilities or programs I can use to check these drives. Everything comes back OK. SMART says the drives are great. Checkdisk says there are no bad sectors at all. Defrag doesn't show any bad clusters on either of the drives.
I have two HDD's. One of them is partitioned. Could this somehow be causing my problem? Worst case scenario, I'll contact WDC and get a replacement RA'ed out to me and I'll probably invest in a third HDD, because I'm anally retentive and redundant to a flaw.
Thanks all.