2x Seagate 250gb 7200.10 issues

Teki187

Teki187

Teki187

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About 6 months ago i purchased a pair of of the hard drives to replace some out dated and faulty hard drives.

Before my big upgrade (2 weeks ago) i have only had 1 issue where they refused to boot, lost all my data and i couldnt get my motherboard to recognise them, but then after a day of not using them and plugging them back in they worked fine. So i thought nothing much of it.

Now i've just upgraded, (6400 core 2 duo, 8800 gts, 2gb ddr2, asus a5n-e mobo) upon installing windows xp pro i was listed 2 drives under the windows installation options since they wernt in raid. I loaded into windows and booted up partition magic so i could sort out my drives. Upon loading the application i was given 2 hard drives

E: was listed with 203gb of unused space, (windows partition with 30gb is C: ) and an extended partion of 400gb, bare in mind i have 2x 250g hard drives
F: 250g of unused space and 250g of extended

Not sure wether this was a bug with the application i went down what i thought was the logical path and chose the none extended parts of the drive and formated them with NTFS.

E: drive has been only used for installing games and applications
F: is used only for downloads, music and other storage means.

Now today i've been getting an issue where windows is saying it cannot write to the E/F drives, it would then practically crash windows and after reboot POST takes about 100% longer and the windows loading screen also takes about 100% longer.

The hard drives have no clicking/strange noises coming from them, i've never dropped them or poked them, they are above body temp to the touch but not scalding hot, they are positioned virtically rather then horizontally in a case hard drive caddy.

Any quick reply would be great, since my girlfriend has over 2 years of her psycology degree saved on there.
 
First if you can get your girlfriends work off the machine onto something or somewhere else do it while you can.

Secondly go get a copy of the Seagate diagnostics program from their site and run it against both disks to rule out a hardware issue.

Which version of Partition Magic were you using? To be honest it sounds like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut - Windows' own Disk Management applet is all that's required for simple partition creation and formatting.
 
rpstewart said:
First if you can get your girlfriends work off the machine onto something or somewhere else do it while you can.

Secondly go get a copy of the Seagate diagnostics program from their site and run it against both disks to rule out a hardware issue.

Which version of Partition Magic were you using? To be honest it sounds like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut - Windows' own Disk Management applet is all that's required for simple partition creation and formatting.
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Thanks a lot for the reply, we have managed to get her work of the machine thank god and im about to test it with the seagate app you suggested.

I've noticed something in the case, the SATA2 cables are plugged into the SATA2 ports, 1 in black and 1 in red, this may sound stupid but there are 2 red and 2 black sockets, have i just been stupid and put one in the wrong one or doesnt it matter?
 
It shouldn't matter which ports you use, from what I can tell there's no difference between the red and the black ports.
 
rpstewart said:
It shouldn't matter which ports you use, from what I can tell there's no difference between the red and the black ports.
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thanks for the reply.

It looks like one of my drives is failing the Short drive self test and passing the generic short test.

any suggestions?

Thanks
 
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