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The_YongGrand · 05-08-2013, 08:34 AM

Hello there,

Recently, one of my hard drives (a 7-year old Western Digital SATA 160GB), it shuts off when I'm working on things and caused the partitions in the drive to be missing. I could hear the motor shutting off, and the HDD LED fully lit on. The frequency of the drive doing that increases from the past week. I restarted the PC, just to have the hard disk to come back again, but after a few minutes to a few hours later, it shuts off and gets missing again.

The SMART status on the HDD is fine, and I do not have power saving options on the HDDs as they are "always on".

I bought another new HDD just to standby if this thing is kaput. Luckily I moved all my work and thesis to another place when it happened.

Is this the HDD problem, or the motherboard?

The specs of the system is a Radeon 6670, Intel Core 2 Duo E7200, a couple of HDDs, and an Asus P5G41T-M motherboard, running with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

05-08-2013, 08:34 AM	#1
The_YongGrand Member (10 bit) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Somewhere in Malaysia... Posts: 963	Intermittent hard drive problems Hello there, Recently, one of my hard drives (a 7-year old Western Digital SATA 160GB), it shuts off when I'm working on things and caused the partitions in the drive to be missing. I could hear the motor shutting off, and the HDD LED fully lit on. The frequency of the drive doing that increases from the past week. I restarted the PC, just to have the hard disk to come back again, but after a few minutes to a few hours later, it shuts off and gets missing again. The SMART status on the HDD is fine, and I do not have power saving options on the HDDs as they are "always on". I bought another new HDD just to standby if this thing is kaput. Luckily I moved all my work and thesis to another place when it happened. Is this the HDD problem, or the motherboard? The specs of the system is a Radeon 6670, Intel Core 2 Duo E7200, a couple of HDDs, and an Asus P5G41T-M motherboard, running with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Last edited by The_YongGrand; 05-08-2013 at 08:38 AM.