Recurring HDD problem on Windows 7

[Whoop]

Hey all,

Back in April I replaced my secondary storage drive due to the original dropping out of the system or randomly freezing up, it was under warranty so I intended to send it off (eventually).

However its now happened to the replacement Secondary drive

I'm on Windows 7 with a DFI Lanparty P45 T2RS motherboard, today it wouldn't post at all so I opened it up, swapped the sata cables around and ran a repair and I'm here. Anyone got any ideas? This is the Event Viewer errors so far -

The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume D:.
The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, is not ready for access yet.
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort3.
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 during a paging operation.

The drive in question is a Samsung EcoGreen F2 1TB Hard Drive, anyone got any idea whats going wrong or is my motherboard Sata dying.

Cheers.

 

[Simon42]

First off, have you run the manufacturer's diagnostic check on the current or earlier drive you had problems with?

If that doesn't show a fault then have you changed the sata cables other than the recent switch, as cables can cause intermittent drives errors. I've had several cables cause such problems (similar error messages) and get worse over time - for me this seems most common with the cheaper and thinner cables some motherboards come with.

After that I would consider trying a different sata port. As this is a secondary drive, is the other one on the same controller? If so and that's working fine then the drivers would seem less likely to be an issue but maybe still worth checking if all else fails.

 

[mercyless]

I had the DFI P45 T2RS plus motherboard with similar booting problems.

Sometimes i had this ' bzbzbzbzbz' showing instead of the drive name/info in bios screen.
xp was repaired and reinstalled many times, drive was all set for RMA (WD vel 300gb).

Problem turned out to be the sata cables DFI supplied, never had the problem again since the sata cables changed.

 

[Whoop]

I had the DFI P45 T2RS plus motherboard with similar booting problems.

Sometimes i had this ' bzbzbzbzbz' showing instead of the drive name/info in bios screen.
xp was repaired and reinstalled many times, drive was all set for RMA (WD vel 300gb).

Problem turned out to be the sata cables DFI supplied, never had the problem again since the sata cables changed.

Awesome stuff, still waiting on getting a different cable as its the only one I don't carry spares on. I'll hopefully never post back as it works so cheers for the answers both.

 

[Noto]

I had the DFI P45 T2RS plus motherboard with similar booting problems.

Sometimes i had this ' bzbzbzbzbz' showing instead of the drive name/info in bios screen.
xp was repaired and reinstalled many times, drive was all set for RMA (WD vel 300gb).

Problem turned out to be the sata cables DFI supplied, never had the problem again since the sata cables changed.

Thank you....

i had this problem on my Sata DVD drive... it would come up as jumbled up letters and crap, but still load, id have weird problems in windows like i could rename a file and it would stay the same name until i refreshed the folder.

Turns out it was all just the sata cable. unplugged the DVD drive and all is fine.