[SOLVED] Hard Drive Dying?

johnny09 · 10-31-2009, 05:59 AM

I recently was given a Seagate 160GB P-ATA IDE Hard Drive which seemed to work fine at first but is now acting strange?

I hooked it up as a slave to another HD with Windows installed on the same board and it shows up in "My Computer" and opens and you can write files to it etc etc, you can even partition it via Disk Management no problem.

I cannot install Windows (or any OS) on it as it nearly always fails at some point throughout the installation or if it does get through it once you restart or shut down\reboot it fails to reload windows?

3) Every 2nd or 3rd time i start Windows with it in the slave configuration Windows initializes Disk Check and it comes up with Errors everywhere i.e "File Record Segment 2254 could not be read" and heaps of others like that.
4) I went to access one of the folders on it yesterday and said "file is corrupt or unrecognizable" but after a reboot disk check came up (as it does) and after it finished windows loaded and i could get to it and move it to other drive?
Obviously it is not normal behaviour for a hard drive and was just wondering if it's something thats fixable (formatting,removing partitions don't help) or not?
Thanks

johnny09 · 10-31-2009, 06:26 AM

I just ran Seatools diagnostic from seagate site and it failed the long and short DST,passed the short generic but failed the long generic test?

**simpswr** · 10-31-2009, 07:25 AM

That drive has failed and will have to be replaced

10-31-2009, 05:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
johnny09 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 58 OS: WinXPSP3/WinXP Prox64/Vista Ultimate SP2	[SOLVED] Hard Drive Dying? I recently was given a Seagate 160GB P-ATA IDE Hard Drive which seemed to work fine at first but is now acting strange? I hooked it up as a slave to another HD with Windows installed on the same board and it shows up in "My Computer" and opens and you can write files to it etc etc, you can even partition it via Disk Management no problem. I cannot install Windows (or any OS) on it as it nearly always fails at some point throughout the installation or if it does get through it once you restart or shut down\reboot it fails to reload windows? 3) Every 2nd or 3rd time i start Windows with it in the slave configuration Windows initializes Disk Check and it comes up with Errors everywhere i.e "File Record Segment 2254 could not be read" and heaps of others like that. 4) I went to access one of the folders on it yesterday and said "file is corrupt or unrecognizable" but after a reboot disk check came up (as it does) and after it finished windows loaded and i could get to it and move it to other drive? Obviously it is not normal behaviour for a hard drive and was just wondering if it's something thats fixable (formatting,removing partitions don't help) or not? Thanks

10-31-2009, 06:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
johnny09 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 58 OS: WinXPSP3/WinXP Prox64/Vista Ultimate SP2	Re: Hard Drive Dying? I just ran Seatools diagnostic from seagate site and it failed the long and short DST,passed the short generic but failed the long generic test?

10-31-2009, 07:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,328 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Hard Drive Dying? That drive has failed and will have to be replaced __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?