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09-19-2009, 11:31 AM
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Opening Screen Hangs!
Normally, the opening screen of my bootup (displaying my motherboard info) only showed for about 10 seconds...this morning, all of a sudden, it now shows for up to 30 seconds!
Is this indicative of some kind of imminent disaster? The only recent PC activity was to reinstall a Gravis Game Pro driver last night, downloaded from Softpedia... I'm running under Windows XP Pro, SP 2. |
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09-19-2009, 12:53 PM
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It's hanging up trying to detect something - check all hard drives and optical drives for proper operation, and run diagnostics on the hard drives.
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09-20-2009, 05:58 PM
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I ran a SystemSuite (v.5) HD diagnostic on my Primary Master and it came back with this result (other tests checked out OK):
"SCSI Read/Verify Sector Failed (1117)" |
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09-20-2009, 10:57 PM
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I think the drive may be failing. Run the manufacturer's diagnostics on it, if they fail and it's still on warranty, RMA it.
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09-23-2009, 08:16 PM
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I ran the latest version of Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools HD diagnostic for my WD Primary
Master HD... It did find some bad sectors--but I'll hold off on any Repair option until I can back up that HD... Incidentally, that opening screen has stopped hanging lately, but the WD DLG diagnostic results tell the real story.... Thanks for feedback. Last edited by MarkTwain; 09-23-2009 at 08:18 PM. |
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09-24-2009, 12:26 AM
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Back it up and RMA it. You can't "fix" bad sectors. All you can do is lock them out, and once they start, they just keep growing.
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09-24-2009, 07:20 PM
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...what I'm now contemplating is to
a) Purchase a good 300 Gig SATA HD b) Mount it on an external enclosure c) Do a Mirror of the buggered drive (good open-source program from Source Forge?) d) Substitute that new drive for the buggered one |
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09-24-2009, 11:33 PM
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You don't need an external enclosure to do that, just mount it internally and clone it with the manufacturer's free utility (Seagate Disk Wizard, WD Data Lifeguard, etc.).
HOWEVER.......if the drive has bad sectors that are NOT locked out, the clone process WILL fail. And - you don't have to BUY a drive, WD offers "advance replacement". Last edited by glc; 09-24-2009 at 11:36 PM. |
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