Wierd hard drive/Windows problem

dark_hag666 · 9 May 2007 at 23:00

The problem I have is that my hard drive makes a tick-tock noise, then everything locks up and i get a few error messages in the System tab of Event Viewer:

Error: The device, \Device\Scsi\viasraid1, did not respond within the timeout period.

Information: The ring buffer that stores incoming mouse data has overflowed (buffer size is configurable via the PS/2 mouse properties in device manager).

Warning: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.

I've had this problem for a while, had it on a previous hard drive, replaced it got the same problem but found a fix...

I was advised to run the Western Digital diagnostic software (which is on the Ultimate Boot CD) and that found a faukt and fixed it. But now it finds the fault, fixes it but the fault is immediately back and even more frequent.

The error messager made me wonder if something was up with the page file, so I moved that to a completely different drive, on a different controller.

Could the SATA controller on my mother board be on its way out?

Anyone have any insite?

UKDTweak · 10 May 2007 at 09:29

Sounds like your drive is about to fail, the noise normaly means the heads are hitting the inside of the drive and may eventually crash.

Make a backup and then get it replaced.

dark_hag666 · 10 May 2007 at 19:03

Well, I had the problem on a previous drive which I replaced, then the same problem started on the new drive, now every time it trys to boot to Windows the loading bar keeps on going then it just restarts before getting to the login screen.

The diagnostic program did fix it originally, but it would come back occasionally. Now it 'fixes' the program but its back the knackered by the time I boot up.

IAmATeaf · 10 May 2007 at 21:36

What exactly is it fixing? Is it a bad sector? If so does the sector number always change?

If the answers are Yes, Yes and Yes then the drive is slowly failing and has what I would refer to as the creeping death in that more and more sectors are becoming unreadable.

dark_hag666 · 11 May 2007 at 17:50

It doesn't say, its just an error code.

First it does a quick test, to see if there is a problem. this then throws up an error code of 0223, i believe it's that.

Then on finding that error it trys to fix it.

With it happening, on two drives, from different drive manufactures (Maxtor then WD) stright after one another. I was wondering if it could be the SATA controller on my motherboard starting to die.