HDD strangeness

realBabelfish

realBabelfish

realBabelfish

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hi guys

i have 2 x 2TB drives that i use for backups.

1 of the drives is plugged into internal SATA on my workstation. the other is housed in a USB caddy.

the USB drive has been having issues for a while now, failing to sometimes show and then sometimes just disconnecting when doing a backup (i backup to internal drive every night, then copy that to the USB drive in the daytime so i have an offsite copy just in case of fires etc.

i recently bought a new caddy to see if it was the old caddy that was having issues.

the new caddy is USB3 compatible. for some reason the drive fails to show up if plugged into a USB3 socket (other drives work in these sockets so i know the sockets are fine for USB2 drives and mice etc)

i have updated my bios and firmware/software on my workstation for latest USB3.

any ideas why this might be happening? is the drive duff? i decided to try the caddy first as having to RMA our offsite backup drive will be a right pain in the butt

hardware:

Akasa Noir S 3.5 inch SATA External Case USB 3.0

2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001)

Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)

Intel Core i5 2500K
 
what operating system do you use?

and what does this say? any errors messages when ran?

Open the "Computer" window
Right-click on the drive in question
Select the "Tools" tab
In the Error-checking area, click <Check Now>. (fix/check on reboot)


h88p://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html
 
was doing a chkdsk but it slows the whole PC to a crawl. im sure ive done one before and nothing back.

OS is win7 64bit.

when it disconnects i sometimes just get a msg saying cannot find the file or sometimes it just stops the copy.
 
sounds like you have bad sectors or errors that maybe failing, doing a scan on reboot will tell you this, sometimes or at least fix any errors / bad sectors and mark them as such
 
hmmm... just plugged back into USB3 and now its showing up and seemingly working.

bloody thing. i have tried this so many times. maybe plugging into USB2 then 'safely remove hardware' then plugging into USB3. very strange!
 
zakblood said:
sounds like you have bad sectors or errors that maybe failing, doing a scan on reboot will tell you this, sometimes or at least fix any errors / bad sectors and mark them as such
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with a 2TB disk this means i cant do anything for a couple of hours lol.

fair enough scanning a system drive might cripple performance, but a USB drive shouldnt kill the whole system. bloody MS lol
 
damn it. seems i murray walkered myself.

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pretty much after 2 mins of usage.

trying back again on USB2
 
realBabelfish said:
bloody hell. still doing a checkdisk. started at 8am! the bar isnt even half way through
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those who have no clue what they are doing will usually end up wasting thier time. but thats not a problem since to those who dont know what they are doing thier time is worthless anyways.


do yourself a favour and check the smart status, it will save you a ton of time, if your smart enough :rolleyes:
 
if there are bad sectors does smart status actually mark them as bad?

why the condescending attitude? you look a bit silly going on about stupid people yet cannot spell THEIR and dont know how to use YOU'RE

apologies if you aren't trying to be a dick but that's how it comes across.
 
realBabelfish said:
if there are bad sectors does smart status actually mark them as bad?

why the condescending attitude? you look a bit silly going on about stupid people yet cannot spell THEIR and dont know how to use YOU'RE

apologies if you aren't trying to be a dick but that's how it comes across.
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thats fine, you keep doing the grammar and spell checking, hopefully it fixes your hard drive :rolleyes:
 
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