HDD on it's way out?

Shash · 21 Dec 2008 at 04:46

Heyup, I have a 150gb RaptorX for OS and a 500GB Sammy Spinpoint for storage. I've just had an error come up a couple of times, "error loading operating system" with a black screen, tried downloading HDDlife which shows my Raptor as on 83% health whereas the Samsung is on 100%. Is this error usually caused by a faulty HDD and how can I test if its operating with 100% good performance? (Just tried HDDlife out as it was the first thing I came across).

Thanks guys

bobbydigital · 21 Dec 2008 at 05:54

Easiest thing to do is download western digitals diagnostic tools from the website. But the error could come from memory/mainboard also. Or even just a faulty cable.

PistolPete · 21 Dec 2008 at 12:26

I had an IDE drive look like it was failing and it turned out to the the IDE cable.
I'd try replacing that first then run the diag tools.

Kennysevenfold · 21 Dec 2008 at 13:11

bobbydigital said:
Easiest thing to do is download western digitals diagnostic tools from the website. But the error could come from memory/mainboard also. Or even just a faulty cable.

+1 thats the first thing i would do.!

Shash · 21 Dec 2008 at 13:41

I have done this and it passed the diagnostics, also I ran chkdisk in deep scan and that didn't find anything so I'm not thinking it may not be the hard drive at all. I loaded the Vista64 disc and clicked repair installation, but that didn't work. I get "error loading operating system" every time I boot, if I press down F8 and select my raptor manually I boot into windows without any problems :confused:

bobbydigital · 21 Dec 2008 at 14:07

check your boot sequence in the bios then its probably trying to boot off the wrong hdd

Shash · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:37

Weird, oddly this was it, it was trying to boot off a usb stick, I'm a spack for not checking that sooner! BIOS has been doing weird things though, it failed to save my settings a couple of times recently, using 0802 on a P5K Premium...