Erratic Hard Drive Read And Write

lie01234 · 06-25-2008, 12:48 AM

I am having trouble with my Samsung SV120H Hard Drive. This past month my drive been acting up. Whenever I transfer files from a different drive to the Samsung drive it would take more time than usual. The window that pop up and show estimated time would jump from 5 minutes to 50 minutes and after 10 min the estimate would drop back down to 20 minutes and would jumped back to 50 minutes. My usual time to transfer 10 files (each file are about 200 megs) is about 1 to 2 minutes. But now its taking about 30 minutes.

I also used a program HD Tune and it showed some erratic read and write
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I want to know if this is a prerequisite to total hard drive failure? If not is there any fix for this problem?

**eneles** · 06-25-2008, 09:03 AM

Welcome to TSF.

Have a look in Device manager:
Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers >
Right-click the channel where the SV120H is connected > Properties > Advanced Settings.
In the Current Transfer Mode menu > select "DMA if available" (if it's set to PIO only).
If the current setting is "DMA if available" > change it to "PIO only" > click OK > change back to "DMA if available" > click OK.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...e/IDE-DMA.mspx

Run Shdiag to check the drive for errors.

06-25-2008, 12:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
lie01234 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Windows 2003 Sp2	Erratic Hard Drive Read And Write I am having trouble with my Samsung SV120H Hard Drive. This past month my drive been acting up. Whenever I transfer files from a different drive to the Samsung drive it would take more time than usual. The window that pop up and show estimated time would jump from 5 minutes to 50 minutes and after 10 min the estimate would drop back down to 20 minutes and would jumped back to 50 minutes. My usual time to transfer 10 files (each file are about 200 megs) is about 1 to 2 minutes. But now its taking about 30 minutes. I also used a program HD Tune and it showed some erratic read and write Write Read I want to know if this is a prerequisite to total hard drive failure? If not is there any fix for this problem? Last edited by lie01234 : 06-25-2008 at 01:03 AM.

06-25-2008, 09:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
eneles Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,258 OS: 98SE/XP SP3/Vista SP1/Ubuntu 8.04 My System	Re: Erratic Hard Drive Read And Write Welcome to TSF. Have a look in Device manager: Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers > Right-click the channel where the SV120H is connected > Properties > Advanced Settings. In the Current Transfer Mode menu > select "DMA if available" (if it's set to PIO only). If the current setting is "DMA if available" > change it to "PIO only" > click OK > change back to "DMA if available" > click OK. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...e/IDE-DMA.mspx Run Shdiag to check the drive for errors. __________________ Click the banner for links