Comments on: Hard Drive Failure: Warnings and Solutions

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:17:21 +0000

My hard drive light keep busying for few minutes sometimes, wonder if that’s a sign also. Any ideas?

Thanks!

By: Richard L Hobbs

Richard L Hobbs — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:42:14 +0000

I run an on-line backup company. There is nothing more upsetting that losing all your files, I meet people everyday who have lost important files. To some it is there treasured family photos, to others it is vital documents to there business.

Backing up regularly is so important, an I am not just saying that because of my business.

Don’t leave it to chance!

even a USB drive backup is better than no backup.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:30:30 +0000

I think this is what has happend to my laptop, basically it has over heated far to many times and turns off. I have said before it will break the hardrive. Now I can only use it in safemode, and it won’t start in normal, it freezes before we even get to the desktop. It works fine in safe mode part from it not being the propper way to use your computer, but the data is there. If anyone has any to say on this to me, Email me biggin03@hotmail.com thanks x

By: Catalin

Catalin — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:29:29 +0000

Also my laptop was working fine….. i get this mesage imediatly after i press power buton “your hdd faiiure sonn , you must do a back up imediatly ” for start wind. press F1
y have 4 weaks with this eror but now i recive also in windows this erorr your hdd drive failure soon !!

By: Ingram

Ingram — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:44:03 +0000

My laptop was working perfectly fine until I booted it the next morning when I was hit with “Internal Hard Drive Disk Not Found” outta nowhere.

Real bummer. Other than reformatting a couple weeks ago and installing Windows 7, I have no idea what happened. No signs of failure or nothin’.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:22:34 +0000

I have, with some success (I say “some” because I’ve had it not work also), been able to use an Ubuntu live CD to recover data from computers that have experienced Hard Drive Failure.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:22:57 +0000

Thanks for the information although it is a couple of years old, it matches exactly what my hard drive is doing, now i know its not the processor overheating,

Thanks,
Matt

By: Jeff T

Jeff T — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:59:06 +0000

I have just recently received this error on startup when I enter setup the SATA 0 is blank and shows a 0GB capacity. My other drive is Identical 500GB capacity if I exit out of setup the computer restarts and is usually there has only been on or two times that I have had to do several restarts. eventually windows does open a check disk shows everthing to be fine. I am not experienceing any of the syptoms stated above no trouble accessing files no slow down no freeze nothing only issue on startup. Checked all connections looks fine. The only odd thing is I know when it’s starting up properly when I get the message of how I want to startup the computer (which o/s) but they list the same thing twice not sure what’s going on there. That started after I made a change to which programs opened on startup. If that is the problem I don’t remember how I got there. Please help

By: Shimafox

Shimafox — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:54:30 +0000

Hi David, very nice articule, i found that very interesting, im writing to u coz i have a really weird problem:

My pc is working slowly and sometimes crashes and restart (i have 3 OS and is the same for all) and when restarts bios not detect the HD, the only way is turning off a little time the pc and then turn on again the pc and after that work again, is a cycle lol

Do u know if that is a comun failure?

Additional data: sometimes is slow in the movies, some mp4 are blurred, when im copying files i cant do anything else (becomes slow) and is really slow coping usb data.

i passed antivirus and tested some of the HD and not have bad sectors, when i tested with hd recovery only gave me a lot of “delays”.

Oh and sometimes when i passed antivirus crashed too.

In Vista the hd is working for a loooong time (red light turns on)

Everything is proper temperature, cables are ok, power supply is ok too.

Well i hope that u can help me, i only want to be sure that is the HD for sending that to warranty.

By: Nathan B

Nathan B — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:20:08 +0000

one other thing which was not mentioned here is a RAID array.
For instance, when using RAID 5, you can sustain loss of up to 1 drive when using the minimum of 3 drives. When a drive does fail, you can still boot the machine and use it normally, but at a slower pace as the drives are trying to find the bytes of data.

you can have more than 3 drives in a RAID 5 array, and the more drives, mean the more drives can be lost and still have a successful boot. ie. 4 drive array can sustain loss of 2 and still boot.

What to do when a raid array fails because of one drive lost? Simply replace the drive with an identical one. open the raid utility and rebuild the array. The rebuild process can take several hours depending on the size of the drive being replaced.

NOTE: when using a RAID setup, all drives must be identical. For instance, 3 drives that are all 7200 RPM, 320 GB capacity, and 3.0GB/s transfer rate. if one fails you must replace it with a drive that matches specifications. you cannot replace it with a 5400 RPM 320Gb capacity and 3..0GB/s transfer.