my system has 4 hard drives (not the same but all 40G or larger), 2 ATA ports and 2 ATA RAID ports.
One drive is having a problem. It is the only drive on one port and set as master. No configuration for single on the drive. It will transfer small files but hangs on large transfers.
I deleted the partitions with Partition Magic and tried to reformat. Nothing will reformat it, it just hangs. HHD utility says xfer rate is about 1mb/sec. all others are around 24mb/sec.
Tried SPINRITE - but runs at 1mb/sec so I canceled it.
tried Seagate utility. same thing.
Is drive toast or is there something that will fix this????
thx
2007-05-13 05:33:19 · 6 answers · asked by Bill R 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It is getting toast. SO if you have any data in it try to save as much as you can.
2007-05-13 05:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Nadun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot from the Seagate diagnostic CD and try the drive alone on the port it is on. If it is still slow try it on a different port. Then try a different SATA cable.
If it is slow with all three tests the drive has had it.
2007-05-13 05:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by Pip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try dban (http://dban.sourceforge.net/), it is formatting software that runs in a Linux kernel, so Windows can't cause any problems.
2007-05-13 05:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by dush2450 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a new drive,
or open the pc and take it out plug it in
it could be dust or anything
2007-05-13 05:40:39 · answer #4 · answered by Saad Imran 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
new drives ore Sooooo cheap. why bother?
2007-05-13 05:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by Irv Lenzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try booting from another drive.
2007-05-13 05:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋