WD and Vista

Torquar · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:05

Hi all,

I recently installed Vista on a rig using 2x Western Digital SE16 3200KS drives. The first drive (the one with the vista install) is my c: drive and works fine, the second one (d

seems to have a few issues.

I can copy or write data to it without problems but if I try to take anything off it, it takes forever, and after a few MB I get an I/O error 8007045d.

I've googled and found a small number of people who have a similar issue with WD drives used as a secondary drive, but nobody seems to have a solution to the issue.

Any ideas? Or are WD drives just not good for Vista?

Cosimo · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:41

I've got two here and they run like a dream. Run a chkdsk on the 2nd drive and see if any hard drive errors are detected. You can always get it to correct them. The drive could be failing, run HD Tune and look at the 'Check the Health screen', here you will see S.M.A.R.T information which shows the condition of the hard disk.

Torquar · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:53

I'll not be happy if its failing, it only arrived last friday. Will try those tools.

Torquar · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:04

HD tune quick scan tells me that I have 2.8% damaged blocks. Chkdsk finds nothing. Is that repairable?

Slackworth · 5 Mar 2007 at 23:07

Torquar said:
I'll not be happy if its failing, it only arrived last friday. Will try those tools.

Brand new hard drives do get faults unfortunately. Not that many do but regardless of brand, there are a few dodgy ones about.

Torquar · 6 Mar 2007 at 09:22

Well I ran WD's disc diagnostic utility. It failed after a few hours because it found too many errors to continue :-/.

RMA time I guess.