Well, this is just great. I now have a 80GB Maxtor paperweight and following that, in another computer I have gotten these wierd "Delayed Write Failure" error balloons from Windows XP for one of my Seagate hard drives (my H:\ drive). I checked the Event Viewer and under the system log, the problem began with a error/warning saying that the hard drive has a bad block. Right. I'm guess the OS attempted to write into a sector that was bad on that particular hard drive? Well, following that entry were at least a hundred "Delayed Write Failure" and "Data not saved something something" errors all related to my H:\ drive.
I use eMule a lot to get TV shows that I can't get in the US and my H drive was being used throughout all of that. I ran chkdsk /f /r (is the /r redundant?) on every drive I downloaded Seagate's Seatools Desktop, loaded them up on a floppy, and booted off. I ran the Quick Test and File System test for each Seagate drive and on a several of them, SeaTools found some sectors that may possibly be bad. They specifically stated "possibly" and I just groaned. However, on EVERY drive, SeaTools said that there was something wrong with the filesystem and advised me to try my OS's utilities to resolve them. So every disk was marked having failed "at least one test," but all passed the SMART.
This is wierd since I ran chkdsk /f /r on all of the drives and while I have no knowledge of the results, I am assuming that no critical errors were found since it boots into Windows XP without a hitch. That may be a big assumption. Under the Windows XP disk manager, all drives are listed as healthy. Although once after that "Delayed Write Failure," the H drive was listed in My Computer and curiously absent in the Disk Manager.
Has anyone else experienced frustration I mean problems with SeaTools? I haven't tried using the Full Diagnostic yet...
EDIT: Ok I've re-read the logs I've saved from SeaTools and it says that the File System errors are for informational use only. Right.
I use eMule a lot to get TV shows that I can't get in the US and my H drive was being used throughout all of that. I ran chkdsk /f /r (is the /r redundant?) on every drive I downloaded Seagate's Seatools Desktop, loaded them up on a floppy, and booted off. I ran the Quick Test and File System test for each Seagate drive and on a several of them, SeaTools found some sectors that may possibly be bad. They specifically stated "possibly" and I just groaned. However, on EVERY drive, SeaTools said that there was something wrong with the filesystem and advised me to try my OS's utilities to resolve them. So every disk was marked having failed "at least one test," but all passed the SMART.
This is wierd since I ran chkdsk /f /r on all of the drives and while I have no knowledge of the results, I am assuming that no critical errors were found since it boots into Windows XP without a hitch. That may be a big assumption. Under the Windows XP disk manager, all drives are listed as healthy. Although once after that "Delayed Write Failure," the H drive was listed in My Computer and curiously absent in the Disk Manager.
Has anyone else experienced frustration I mean problems with SeaTools? I haven't tried using the Full Diagnostic yet...
EDIT: Ok I've re-read the logs I've saved from SeaTools and it says that the File System errors are for informational use only. Right.
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