Hard drive weirdness...

[Chaotic42]

Hey, folks.

I'm having a weird situation here.

I have an 80GB Western Digital Hard Drive and a 300GB Maxtor Hard Drive (I have others, but these are the two in question.) Anyway, the 80GB drive was having clicking fits when it was on the primary controller. A 200GB NTFS partition on the Maxtor, which in turn is on a tertiary Promise onboard RAID controller, takes about twelve seconds for Windows to open. When I use Explorer to view the drive, it just sits there and then eventually opens up. This does not happen in Linux.

When I put the 80GB drive on the same Promise controller (Second device) Windows has no problems with the drives on it at all.

I know this is weird, I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight on it.

Thanks!

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Clicking noises are usually a dying HDD. Download the manufacturer's HDD diagnostic and run the FULL (advanced) diagnostic and see if it passes or fails.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: FlyingPenguin
Clicking noises are usually a dying HDD. Download the manufacturer's HDD diagnostic and run the FULL (advanced) diagnostic and see if it passes or fails.

Oh, yeah, it's dying. I've already requested an RMA. I managed to pull most of the data off of it and format it.

I'm wondering if my 300GB drive is bad, or if the controller is the problem.

 

[Chaotic42]

Ok, I put the 300GB drive onto another controller, and I have the same problem. The 200GB NTFS parition takes forever to open in Windows explorer.

Is this normal in any way?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Shouldn't be. Have you run Scandisk and the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic on it? Might just be corrupt data.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: FlyingPenguin
Shouldn't be. Have you run Scandisk and the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic on it? Might just be corrupt data.

I've run scandisk on it and I get no problems. Linux can read it just fine as well. Windows is the only one who has problems with it.

 

[bluestrobe]

Sounds like a software problem, might be the IDE driver or another windows storage management software.

 

[KGB]

Chaotic,

Are you saying it has one hugh 300GB partition?
How much data is on it?

You might want to try turning off the indexing service and see if that speeds it up.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: KGBMAN
Chaotic,

Are you saying it has one hugh 300GB partition?
How much data is on it?

You might want to try turning off the indexing service and see if that speeds it up.

It has one 200GB NTFS partition on it and a 50GB Ext3 patition on it. I tried turning off indexing, and that didn't make a noticable differnce.