Re: Hard Disk Problem
- From: w_tom <w_tom1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:43:37 -0700 (PDT)
First, the power supply voltages must be measured with a multimeter
- a device so simple as to be sold even in Kmart - and sold at a
better price in Wal-Mart. Power up the system and access all
peripherals simultaneously. Play complex graphics (a movie), while
downloading a file from the Internet, while searching for a file on
some hard drive, while playing sound on the sound card, while reading
a CD, etc. Now measure voltages on any one of orange, red, purple,
and yellow wires. A 30 second task that is also summarized in a two
minute procedure in the newsgroup alt.windows-xp at:
http://tinyurl.com/yvf9vh
Connector chart to locate each color:
http://www.hardwarebook.net/connector/power/atxpower.html
Those numbers must exceed 3.23, 4.87, and 11.7 DC volts. If so,
then power supply is definitively good - move on and never look back.
Only answer that is final (definitive) means you have numbers to post
here. Anything without numbers is mostly a request for speculation.
Second, other questions about too much activity are irrelevant. But
that is why responsible computer manufacturers provide comprehensive
hardware diagnostics. If your's is not so responsible, then download
disk drive diagnostics from the disk manufacturer. A useful
diagnostics loads and executes without Windows. No disk drive can be
made to 'work too hard'.
Third, if reading or writing to a disk corrupts that disk, then the
'disk' or 'disk filesystem' is defective. Turn off power when disk is
in the middle of writing. That must not even corrupt a disk.
Corruption was a problem that existed with FAT filesystems and that
does not exist if using NTFS filesystems. Which filesystem was your
hard drive formatted in? Find and execute Disk Manager to answer that
'disk filesystem' question. Comprehensive hardware diagnostic answers
the 'disk' question.
Cannot answer question 4 and after since I don't know what creates
"wrrrrrmmm" and other questions are about problems found or made
irrelevant in the above answers.
On Jun 3, 9:43 am, Melina <Mel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually only one HD that is failing, but now I'm little more cautious about.
the other two.
...
1.How do I check whether my HD get enough power form thePower 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. ...
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