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lady_lunar · 09-14-2005, 07:17 PM

Long story short, still having the problem :S

I did chkdsk, fixboot and fixmbr (it wouldnt take fixboot /mbr? but it did the same thing). Chkdsk found a couple of errors but fixed them, and I rewrote the both the boot sector and the MBR.

So on to diagnostics - I've been running a SMART checker for a few days, and I ran both the short and long (bout an hour and a half -_-) versions of Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test. Both came up 100% clean. The SMART tests have been perfect except for an occasional jump in seek error rate.

Any suggestions on where to go next? I'm completely out of ideas...maybe I did something wrong? I've never had SATA before - but it did work fine for Windows install, etc...I'm using it now, through the 'select OS' screen.

** By the way, sorry if it takes me a few days to respond - I work and go to school so I dont have a lot of time to even work on this

09-14-2005, 07:17 PM	#6
lady_lunar Member (4 bit) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 9	Long story short, still having the problem :S I did chkdsk, fixboot and fixmbr (it wouldnt take fixboot /mbr? but it did the same thing). Chkdsk found a couple of errors but fixed them, and I rewrote the both the boot sector and the MBR. So on to diagnostics - I've been running a SMART checker for a few days, and I ran both the short and long (bout an hour and a half -_-) versions of Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test. Both came up 100% clean. The SMART tests have been perfect except for an occasional jump in seek error rate. Any suggestions on where to go next? I'm completely out of ideas...maybe I did something wrong? I've never had SATA before - but it did work fine for Windows install, etc...I'm using it now, through the 'select OS' screen. ** By the way, sorry if it takes me a few days to respond - I work and go to school so I dont have a lot of time to even work on this Last edited by lady_lunar; 09-14-2005 at 07:21 PM.