My Hard Drive is lying to me!!

[ramirez]

So what would you guys do if you suspected that one of your hard disks had corrupted sectors, but when you run the manufactorers diagnostics, it came up clean? I got this 200GB WD SE Caviar that I've had for about 2 months now. It corrupted the some of the original data I had on it . I reformatted, filled the whole thing up with known GOOD data and now parts of it are corrupted again. The WD Data Life Diagnostic says the coast is clear, but I'm hesistant to start using it again. Recommend some other tools/apps?

I want to RMA, but not sure it WD will let me if their diagnostics are saying nothings wrong with the drive.

BTW I've tried CHKDSK but can't find the results (and yes, I did already look in the Event Viewer (App, System, and Security) Log)

 

[stevty2889]

Are you doing any overclocking? DATA can become corrupted for reasons other than the hard drive..have you tested your RAM?

 

[theMan]

that happened to me, it probably means there is no problem with the drive, i would make sure you are virus free, and check for other problems in windows.

 

[ramirez]

No OCing, I just finished DLing MemTest and was gonna run that next. I read somewhere that bad mem could be the culprit.

 

[ramirez]

I'm POSITIVE that I'm clean. I'm trying to fix this drive on a maching that has been recently reinstalled, firewall, Kaspersky, eveything updated before I plugged it back online...

 

[Jakebrake]

Who is this General Fault, and why is he reading my hard drive?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: ramirez
I'm POSITIVE that I'm clean. I'm trying to fix this drive on a maching that has been recently reinstalled, firewall, Kaspersky, eveything updated before I plugged it back online...

Run memtest and get back to us.

 

[n7]

I would just RMA it anyway. Do the WD advanced RMA. It's good stuff

My Raptor had some weird funky issues where the WD diagnostics said it was fine, yet it wouldn't finish chkdsk in Windows, & running an OS on it was an unstable nightmare.
Also, like you mentioned, i could put data on it, but it would become corrupted.
I got my new one, & all has been well.

 

[gsellis]

Tip (that you may have done) - when reinstalling the OS because of suspected drive problems, use the long (not quick) NTFS format option. It will check and mark any bad blocks it finds. This is the same as "chkdsk d: /r", which requires answering yes and a restart to initiate if the volume is in use.