Corrupted disk?

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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I have been capturing video all day - now when I go to right click on one of the files I get the spinning circle. It looks like the file is corrupted and it hangs explorer.

I have ran a chkdsk which found errors and fixed them although the problem still exists. How can I get around this? Is my disk likely to be knackered?
 
Did you run a chkdsk /f to repair it or did you run it normally under a read only "chkdsk"?

Sounds as though the disk is nakard. What disk is it?
 
I did both read on and fix mode. The disk is a Seagate from about 3 years ago.

Everything was fine until some errors happening during capture.

Now I can't even rename folders on the drive.

Any other checks I can do?

If I try to copy any other files it says the speed is something like 40k/sec.
 
ringo747 said:
I did both read on and fix mode. The disk is a Seagate from about 3 years ago.

Everything was fine until some errors happening during capture.

Now I can't even rename folders on the drive.

Any other checks I can do?

If I try to copy any other files it says the speed is something like 40k/sec.
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Sounds like the drive is done for. Try a low level format, that can sort out problems with a dying drive.

Try this software: HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.12
 
I have booted from an Ubuntu disk and have managed to delete the file in question. Hopefully I can get everything I need copied over and then try formatting.

I will probably RMA the drive (if within warranty) but not sure that it will be accepted. I'm guessing they do check before issuing replacements.
 
Yea, if the drive is 3 years old, I doubt there will be any warranty on it.

Just be careful when picking your new or next HDD as prices have doubled in the past week or so thanks to the floods in Taiwan where most of them are made!

A 1TB used to be around £50, they are now around £100 or more depending on the make and model you want. So that ain't great!

A low level format, should sort any problems you have out, if not, new drive dude :(
 
I am getting a whack of entries in the system event log to do with storage device not responding before timeout. I think it is well knackered.

If I open certain files then it jams the whole machine. It hangs when even trying to shut down. Also I cannot manually run chkdsk using the 'tools' menu. Some of the data must be corrupted and then the drive locks when reading it.
 
ringo747 said:
I am getting a whack of entries in the system event log to do with storage device not responding before timeout. I think it is well knackered.

If I open certain files then it jams the whole machine. It hangs when even trying to shut down. Also I cannot manually run chkdsk using the 'tools' menu. Some of the data must be corrupted and then the drive locks when reading it.
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Your drive is nakard then dude. Nothing you can do about it really.

I would get a replacement, but as I said, watch the prices as they have doubled in the last few weeks.

I would still get a 1TB as it will give you plenty of room to store media files, programs and the main priorities which of course are games xD.

I would recommend this: Western Digital Cavier Green 1TB.

It may only be sata 2 but with a 64MB cache it is quick as hell and for a 1TB for under £100 at the moment, it is a freakin' bargain.
 
It's a Seagate 320Gb from a few years back so I'd say just out of warranty. I already have a 1TB drive in the rig which doesn't have much space used up so I will just use that. I'm managing to get a fair bit transferred over using Linux live cd so hopefully a format might sort something. We will see. Really shocked by drive prices. I got a few 2TB F4s for a NAS about a month ago for around £56 each. Now they are insane.
 
A low level format should sort the bad sectors and any sort of errors out. Mechanical hard drives are known for not having a great life span. They usually last around 3 years or so on average before they begin to die. I have still got a Hitachi 160GB sata 2 in my system, mainly used for storage, and had no end of problems with it when I had windows installed on it, but since I use my 500gb with a 50gb partition on it for windows instead, the 160gb is behaving itself and runs smoothly with no errors or bad sectors on it and runs at around 31C average which for the age of the thing is quite good. It is actually from an old E-Machines PC I had years ago!

The only reason prices have doubled for hdds is because of the floods and terrible weather out in Taiwan where they are all mostly made. Getting the materials to make them from China and abroad is more difficult and more costly, making them will be a pain in the ass and getting them to the world wide market in a country that is facing a political and financial breakdown is getting harder as well, making running costs for the companies who produce the hardware, equalling in us, the consumer having to out our backsides for what we want and need.

Life is a pain in the ass and I think it has just came back to bite us!
 
I was able to copy most of the stuff off the drive using live cd. One particular file kept inducing a clicking noise.

I ran a chkdsk overnight with the fix option enabled and after a while it jammed, the clicking started and my event log went full of red errors. Will try seatools.
 
I've ran the long test on SeaTools and it fails. It says there were problems reading from the drive. Before it failed there were lots of errors listed. I reckon it's for the bin.
 
ringo747 said:
I've ran the long test on SeaTools and it fails. It says there were problems reading from the drive. Before it failed there were lots of errors listed. I reckon it's for the bin.
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I'd go for the bin option too, especially if its actually doing the clicking noise. Atleast you was able to get most of the data off
 
if its seagate you can try to rma online buy entering the codes and it tells you there and then if its in warranty. did a couple of 3 year old drives the other day. think there is a five year warranty on some of the older stuff irc.
 
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