Hello, all. I've got two internal SATA HDs in my rig--one 250GB, one 200GB. Both are Seagates and have performed remarkably well for at least a couple years, but I've run into a strange problem over the past few weeks:
The 200GB trouble-free drive is divided into two partitions, one being my Windows installation and the other being general-purpose storage and installations. The 250GB drive is a solitary partition and is used entirely for storage. However, the boot sector on the second drive becomes corrupt upon restarting or booting from a cold state approximately 2-3 times/week.
After such corruptions the drive always shows up as an unformatted raw partition in Windows, but I have thus far been able to "fix" it by booting into the recovery console and running /fixboot on the troublemaker drive. Now, I keep current backups of all my important materials on a couple externals, but the corruption certainly is inconvenient, and I'm wondering if it is perhaps a sign of impending hardware failure? I've reformatted the drive and restored its contents via backup and even successfully put it through a SeaTools "Long Self-Test," so I'm not sure what else is left. My Windows partition is "G" rather than "C," but I didn't think that would matter (the drive in question is "D" in the event that it did, though).
I'm not at home right now and can't post thoroughly top-to-bottom specs, but I'm running XP Professional w/SP3, a DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D Socket 939 motherboard w/an Opty 165@2.7ghz, 2GB of Kingston HyperX memory, and an HD3870 video card. I can't remember the model on either HD, but that doesn't seem terribly relevant (although they're both SATA 1.0 drives).
Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated, because while I'm far from technically illiterate, I'm also pretty far from techno-savant status. Thanks in advance for any help.
The 200GB trouble-free drive is divided into two partitions, one being my Windows installation and the other being general-purpose storage and installations. The 250GB drive is a solitary partition and is used entirely for storage. However, the boot sector on the second drive becomes corrupt upon restarting or booting from a cold state approximately 2-3 times/week.
After such corruptions the drive always shows up as an unformatted raw partition in Windows, but I have thus far been able to "fix" it by booting into the recovery console and running /fixboot on the troublemaker drive. Now, I keep current backups of all my important materials on a couple externals, but the corruption certainly is inconvenient, and I'm wondering if it is perhaps a sign of impending hardware failure? I've reformatted the drive and restored its contents via backup and even successfully put it through a SeaTools "Long Self-Test," so I'm not sure what else is left. My Windows partition is "G" rather than "C," but I didn't think that would matter (the drive in question is "D" in the event that it did, though).
I'm not at home right now and can't post thoroughly top-to-bottom specs, but I'm running XP Professional w/SP3, a DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D Socket 939 motherboard w/an Opty 165@2.7ghz, 2GB of Kingston HyperX memory, and an HD3870 video card. I can't remember the model on either HD, but that doesn't seem terribly relevant (although they're both SATA 1.0 drives).
Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated, because while I'm far from technically illiterate, I'm also pretty far from techno-savant status. Thanks in advance for any help.
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