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    Hard drive insanity

    Ok, I'm confused.

    My 40 gig maxtor HDD started acting funny...so I tried to run a scandisk. Got to a certain point, and it froze up. Tried this several times.

    I then downloaded the "powermax" diagnostic utility by maxtor, ran it through EVERY test, and it came up fine.

    Performed a full format on the disk, everything seemed a-ok.

    Tried to scandisk it again, locks up at 80% now, every time. Even tried 3rd party "scandisks" on it. No help either.

    Any ideas?
    Last edited by Kooldino; 31 December 2002, 17:41.
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    Interesting, if the diagnostic doesn't even pick anything up...

    Did the powermax program do any data-destructive tests?

    Have you tried the HD in another computer? Maybe it's your controller that's going.....
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Wombat
      Interesting, if the diagnostic doesn't even pick anything up...

      Did the powermax program do any data-destructive tests?

      Have you tried the HD in another computer? Maybe it's your controller that's going.....
      I honestly don't know what it tested since I set it to run all tests and then went to bed.

      I haven't tried it in another PC, out of sheer laziness, but I have suspected the controller, and the cable as well. I just figured I'd post before I pulled it out.

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      • #4
        80% of 40GB would put you at 32GB. A nice power of two - maybe that address line is going bad somewhere along the way.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Wombat
          80% of 40GB would put you at 32GB. A nice power of two - maybe that address line is going bad somewhere along the way.
          That's a good point...

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          • #6
            Try changing the cable. I had a problem with one of my HDD's a couple of weeks ago and swore it was the drive, but just for the helluvit I swapped out the cable for a new one and POOF!! Instant fix.

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            • #7
              Just changed the cable, and even put it on a different channel (on the same controller).

              Still sticks @ 80% and my HD activity light turns off.

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              • #8
                Now my PC stopped responding while burning a CD on that same IDE channel as the HDD...

                updating 4 in 1's to newest ver.

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                • #9
                  OK, after the new 4 in 1's, I'm able to burn a CD, but I haven't been able to check the disk yet.

                  To eliminate Windows as the cause of the problem (even tho not likely), are there any DOS apps that can access a 40GB FAT32 partition? Will old DOS Scandisk work?

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                  • #10
                    just use a win98se bootdisk!
                    Dos scandisk, fdisk format do work with 100gb+ partitions with fat32!
                    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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                    • #11
                      Try using microsoft ide drivers rather than Viacrap. Just out of interest.
                      I had a via motherboard that rufused to format a hard drive. It passed all IBM's testing by the way. Took it too work and formatted it there on a intel chipset. Got back home and I could also format it there. Go and figure.
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                      • #12
                        Pit: Weird stuff. Well, that's what I'm trying to accomplish by going through DOS. Won't be running any via drivers at all. :-)

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                        • #13
                          Didn't realise you're running on a via kt133a chipset. It's not made by abit by any chance???
                          If you want to keep the mboard buy a promise ide controller and run your drives off that. Probably solve your problem overnight.
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                          • #14
                            i remember that MS had a knowledge base article for scandisk that doesn't run on partitions larger than 32 MB, i think there was a fix for that in the KB article.

                            search the KB with the keyword scandisk, or 32 MB and select win98 SE as ur OS.
                            Last edited by arbymo; 3 January 2003, 08:14.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by The PIT
                              Didn't realise you're running on a via kt133a chipset. It's not made by abit by any chance???
                              If you want to keep the mboard buy a promise ide controller and run your drives off that. Probably solve your problem overnight.
                              nope it's an asus a7v133.

                              the abit ones have a highpoint controller.

                              Anyway, here's my current status...

                              last night I booted with a win98 bootdisk, and ran scandisk /surface /bla bla bla

                              It didn't even get past the first part of the test ("reading media descriptor") without giving me a problem. It was complaining about my LBA mode not being set correctly. I told it to ignore the error and check the disk anyway.

                              When I woke, it was about 75% finished the scan (based on a glance of the progress bar). For all I know, it could have been "80%". Anyway, I had already found a bad cluster, and it was stalling on finding the next cluster...ie, not examining any.

                              So even if the "disk" is "bad", it COULD still be the IDE controller, right?

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