Hard drive errors

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 17:01

I was logged on to my server today and just doing general things on it and suddenly one of my drives stopped responding. The entire system slowed to a crawl and I got a ton of failed write error messages from windows. Checked speedfan and it's SMART setting and the drive has a ton of reallocated sector errors.

Restarted the PC and now I get the "backup and replace" message from SMART.

Started windows in safe mode, ran a check disk and didn't return anything odd. What could have happened to cause it to bomb out on me like that?

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:11

Well now I can't even access the drive. Taken it out and put it on my main PC and it won't even show up in the BIOS. Guess it's dead?

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:23

To add to the confusion, as I was moving it between the two PC's, I heard a loud clunk inside the drive and now it no longer works

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:46

Died in a few seconds? It was running 100% fine up until then.

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:36

No, it told me about 5 minutes before I managed to kill it. I got loads of failed delayed write errors in windows, thought it was a bug, restarted windows and had the same problem. Took the drive out of the computer and transferred it over to mine. While I was transferring it, I heard a loud clunk inside the drive and since then, it isn't seen by the BIOS.

NightmareXX · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:53

Just used a stethoscope to listen to the drive and I can definitely hear it spin up and hear the heads moving around. Still isn't recognised by the BIOS though