I believe my one of my HHD’s is failing or is going to. I have two hard drives, one is a 500 GB which is my boot drive and a 1 TB one for storage with all my music, movies, documents, downloads and any other stuff I do not want on my boot drive. Recently I have been getting “write errors” from various programs and my computer is freezing at random points. When I unplug the TB drive when XP is loaded everything runs great with no problems. For a couple of days now when ever XP loads it runs chkdsk on my TB drive which only takes a few minutes and it never finds anything.
After that when I get into XP my computer runs sluggishly until I unplug the drive. Sometimes the BIOS takes a while to find the drive in POST.
I was wondering if it is failing or going to soon. I have not heard any unusual sound or felt any unusual vibrations as well as temps, it is cooler than my 500 GB.
I have replaced the SATA cables going to the drive as well as the power cable too. I recently ran a Hitachi Drive Fitness Tool for three hours and it returned with no errors. Because of the freezing I have not been able to run a defrag or virus scan for a week.
EVGA 780i SLI mobo
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2 GHz
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB x2 SLI
2 GB of OCZ SLI-ready RAM
500 GB Hitachi HHD (boot) and 1TB Hitachi (storage/backup)
Windows XP Pro SP3
Ubuntu 8.04 64bit
