Could raptor have died?

Cinemax · 22 Feb 2006 at 10:40

Asus A7n-sli with a sata 74gb raptor drive. now wont boot into windows after a crash. Do you think drive has died on me or can i do any other checks.

AnastieByte · 22 Feb 2006 at 10:43

Do you here any noise from the drive? Are the fans on the motherboard working? Can you boot to bios?

Cinemax · 22 Feb 2006 at 10:47

boot to bios no problem, fans etc work, no noise from drive, have checked connections and dont appear to be bad.

smids · 22 Feb 2006 at 10:54

Could be a corrupt boot sector. Try loading up the Recovery console form the Windows XP setup CD and use the commands fixboot and fixmbr. This should fix any bootsector problems and may allow a boot. Before doing this, try running a chkdsk to make sure the drive is ok. Run checkdisk with the following switches:

chkdsk /p /r

And after this has completed successfuly, run the fixboot and fixmbr commands

fixboot

fixmbr

.

Cinemax · 22 Feb 2006 at 13:27

its fixed itself, but Im well concirned about it. Can I do anymore tests to see what may have happened?

Thanks for the help

smids · 22 Feb 2006 at 14:33

Download the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tools from WD.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3

Then run a quick media scan, backup any data you cannot afford to lose and then run a full scan.