Re: Hard Disk Problem



"Lil' Dave" wrote:

"Melina" <Melina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Since two weeks ago, I had a hard disk problem.
It said: "\Device\Harddisk1\D, has a bad blocks"

I want to ask some questions, I think it is really long because I want to
know the most reliable answer/opinions so I'm write clearly about my
condition:

1.What should I do now?
Now I'm in the middle of backing up my data by copying them, but event
viewer sometimes gave me in the middle of copying:
a.An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging
operation.
b.The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within timeout period.
c.A CRC error (Someone tell me it is because the data that was copied is
in
Bad Blocks.

Someone tell me that these event are caused by the Bad Blocks because
these
event start appearing as my HD get Bad Blocks, but I want to be sure that
I
don't have any other hardware problems. Also, someone tell me, another
hardware error doesn't cause bad blocks. Is it true? Could someone clarify
this?

2.I wonder what caused the bad blocks?
Because, there is 3 HD in my Computer.

The first one is where I installed my Windows. It is 6 years old and never
had any Bad Blocks problem. Now it still doesn't. (I hope it doesn't/won't
appear because I make two partition on it C:/ and D:/ and many important
files especially in D:/, C:/ is where I installed Windows and many other
programs.).

The second one is the HD with Bad Blocks.It was bought 1 years and 3 month
ago. Some people said it was because overheating but this HD has lower
temperature in SMART Test (41 C while the other two is 43-45 C) and sudden
movement, I still don't think this is the cause because if it it true, the
other two could also have Bad Blocks but it doesn't happen.

The third one is my Brother HD that has same type and was bought on same
day
with my HD that has Bad Blocks. His still doesn't any problem with Bad
Blocks.

Using Speedfan, The fitness of my HD that has Bad Block is only 57% while
my
6 years old HD is 98% and my brother 95%.

So, I wonder what caused the differences, I used all the HD with same
working time ,obviously (all the HD is powered up as my PC is powered up).
A
Comupter technician tell because there is too much data in my HD, I think
that not really correct, my 6 years old HD in D:/ partition has only 1%
free
space from 20GB (about 110MB), while this HD with Bad Blocks still has
about
16-20% free space from 160GB (about 35GB).

4.Some people say that Bad Blocks could be cause by Logical or/and
Physical
problem on the HD and if it was Logical, it could fixed with some
program/software, it is true?

5.I've brought my PC with all the HD to a Computer Technician and he told
me
that the HD (that with Bad Blocks) is fine and he told me to format it to
fix
this problem. Should I do as he says or get a new HD?

6a.If I should/must get a new HD, should I run a HD Check Utility as
precaution there is not Bad Blocks in the new HD?
6b.If I copied backup data from my External HD, will the new HD get Bad
Blocks problem?

7.In my brother HD there is a weak sector when I'm verify his HD using
HDDScan, there is a folder that took about 15-30 seconds to access, it is
about 15GB and has about 30.000+ files.This folder was always like that
since
several months ago when it was created, it holds several games for PC.
Does
this cause the weak sector/ was caused by the weak sector?

Thanks. Sorry it is really long

Its rather unusual for three hard drives on one PC to simultaneously develop
such a problem. I would suspect something that all have in common like the
ribbon cables. Another anomaly is that some manufacturer's hard drives
don't play well if another of a different manufacture is onboard, or on the
same ribbon cable. The power supply could be borderline for handling all
those hard drives as well.
--
Dave




Actually only one HD that is failing, but now I'm little more cautious about
the other two.

I want to know some more about something some people said and some things
than concerns me. Please answer the questions one by one.

1.How do I check whether my HD get enough power form the Power Supply?

2.Does using torrents to download some files, make HD failed sooner?
I'm assuming this because I'm regularly using torrents to download a file to
this HD that now has Bad Blocks, I rarely used it before to my 6 years old HD
and never had Bad Blocks problem. Or my HD can handle torrent operations
(torrents write block by block) so it caused Bad Blocks and caused my HD to
fail?

Could someone clarify this? Does using torrents to download making Bad
Blocks or not? Now I'm scared using torrents again because I'm not sure it
was the cause of Bad Blocks.

3.Some people said that downloading a file can corrupt the file system in
the HD. How could it be possible? As far as I know, downloading a file is
almost the same operation as copying a file (it used Read and Write
Operation), only downloading used Internet Connection. Assuming the download
file doesn't have any Malware/Viruses.

If this true, doesn't it mean if I copy my backup data to my new HD, it can
also cause the file system in the new HD?

4.Does it normal to have sounds like "wrrrrrrmmmmm" when my PC powered up?

5.I get a weird thing before I realized that I had Bad Blocks in my HD.
It was like this:
a.I mean to copy a folder to my DVD to backup, but I accidentally using cut
operation. It worked fine.
b.I copy back the folder to my HD that now has Bad Blocks, it still worked
fine.
c.I try copy that folder to my External HD, it gave me CRC error in the
middle of process.

How could this happened? I though an OS (Windows) is supposed to marked a
Bad Blocks so it's not used anymore because I've run CHKDSK /f /r on the HD
that now has Bad Blocks problem.

Thanks for all your reply. Now I really want to know whether using torrents
to download could make my HD failed sooner than the other two or not aside
the other questions.
.

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