Situation:
(five - Raid 5) HDD 320GB 7200RPM S-ATA300 Seagate 7200.10 16MB Ca
ASUS M2N-E
Cooler Master Centurion 534 (Silver)
POWER SUPPLY YESICO 560W SilentCool w/modular cabl
S40 Sapphire ATi X1600 XT 256DDR3 PCI-E TVout DVI
LG DVDRW+/- 16x DL LightScribe (black/white?)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
(two) Corsair 1024MB,DDR2, PC6400,XMS2-6400,Heatspreader
The raid 5 (totalling 1.16TB) has been split into two partitions. The first partition (100GB) contains windows XP 64bit SP1, program files, games, ... I haven't had any problems with this, as far as i can tell. The second partition is 1.06TB (1,092GB) containing data, backups etc. It had been without problems until recently, around the time about 800GB was being used. Last defragmented around when it was about half full, but seeing as i've deleted virtually nothing, i don't know how it's getting fragmented. Disk Defragmenter lists 22% File Fragmentation, if that matters.
Problem:
Program (and usually windows) locks up completely when trying to access the hard drive.
I've done error checking of the 1TB partition, no problems. However i did another scan, with both options ("Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"), when i hung in Phase 5 about 40% of the way. It has hung when reading data, as well as when writing data. It's hung when defragmenting (at 3%).
Guesses:
Windows XP Pro 64Bit doesn't like big partitions?
Raid chip of mobo gone bad?
One (or more) Hard Disks gone bad?
Maybe a crash somewhere glitched a dll driver or something?
avast Anti Virus bug?
Thanks for your time,
Kirsten
(five - Raid 5) HDD 320GB 7200RPM S-ATA300 Seagate 7200.10 16MB Ca
ASUS M2N-E
Cooler Master Centurion 534 (Silver)
POWER SUPPLY YESICO 560W SilentCool w/modular cabl
S40 Sapphire ATi X1600 XT 256DDR3 PCI-E TVout DVI
LG DVDRW+/- 16x DL LightScribe (black/white?)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
(two) Corsair 1024MB,DDR2, PC6400,XMS2-6400,Heatspreader
The raid 5 (totalling 1.16TB) has been split into two partitions. The first partition (100GB) contains windows XP 64bit SP1, program files, games, ... I haven't had any problems with this, as far as i can tell. The second partition is 1.06TB (1,092GB) containing data, backups etc. It had been without problems until recently, around the time about 800GB was being used. Last defragmented around when it was about half full, but seeing as i've deleted virtually nothing, i don't know how it's getting fragmented. Disk Defragmenter lists 22% File Fragmentation, if that matters.
Problem:
Program (and usually windows) locks up completely when trying to access the hard drive.
I've done error checking of the 1TB partition, no problems. However i did another scan, with both options ("Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"), when i hung in Phase 5 about 40% of the way. It has hung when reading data, as well as when writing data. It's hung when defragmenting (at 3%).
Guesses:
Windows XP Pro 64Bit doesn't like big partitions?
Raid chip of mobo gone bad?
One (or more) Hard Disks gone bad?
Maybe a crash somewhere glitched a dll driver or something?
avast Anti Virus bug?
Thanks for your time,
Kirsten