Hard drive problem...I think...

[Le Québécois]

I have a 2 years old WD 80 gig SE Caviar ( 8mb ) and I think its begining to have problems ( i.e. strange noise or computer freeze in a hard drive loop ).

ScanDisk and "restart scandisk" doesn't fing anything wrong.

Was wondering if there's some program for testing HD, programs equivalent like prime95 for cpu or memt86 for RAM.

Any suggestion?

 

[furballi]

Download the utility from the WD website.

 

[Le Québécois]

Ok I will..but any other suggestion?

 

[Le Québécois]

Yep..can use the WD utility...It would require me to backup my current HD wich is not an option right now...so..any...other suggestion?

 

[bendixG15]

Originally posted by: furballi
Download the utility from the WD website.

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: Le Québécois
Yep..can use the WD utility...It would require me to backup my current HD wich is not an option right now...so..any...other suggestion?

what do you mean? use the utility to perform tests on the HD. you don't need to backup anything.

 

[RJR2006]

Since you are saying that you are using ScanDisk, I am assuming that you are running 98se, is that right? if so, try using third party software like Norton Utilities to perform hdd check. I hope that it helps you solve the problem.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I have trouble believeing harddrives going out so soon. Especially if its from Maxtor, Seagate, or Western Digital. Heck, after 6 years my old 10GB Seagate from my PII350Mhz Gateway was still running. I just threw it away because I couldn't put it in my new computer. If scandisk or the WD utility or anything like those don't find problems, you should be fine unless the spindle motor is about to fail. But that wouldn't be because of age, obviously that would mean a bad harddrive to begin with.

 

[Le Québécois]

Originally posted by: RJR2006
Since you are saying that you are using ScanDisk, I am assuming that you are running 98se, is that right? if so, try using third party software like Norton Utilities to perform hdd check. I hope that it helps you solve the problem.

Nope...winxp still has a scandisk, it s just harder to find and execute ( you have to use the run - cmd )

 

[Le Québécois]

I've said..what the hek....so I did the test anyway ( even if they recommend backing up before doing it) and it fail after 4 sec...

Here's what i get...

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1
Serial Number: WD-WCA8E6598838
Firmware Number: 710.W771
Drive Type: IDE
Capacity: 80.03 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 65 (Error Log Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1!
Test Time: 04:49:51, July 17, 2005

So I guess its RMA time for me....