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Hard drive dying?

  • 19-01-2007 9:17pm
    #1
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭


    Getting the odd paging error, for a few hours now and then, sometimes happens ever day sometimes not for a week, hard drive occasionally makes strange sound, as if spindle is doing something weird for a second...

    Its a 6 month old Maxtor 300Gb SATA, cant seem to find diagnostics on maxtors site for SATA drives, they only hve ones for IDE, are there any generic diagnostics i could run on it?

    Its an ASUS A8N32-SLI board, possible controller problem or defo the hdd?

    PCs working fine, just worried drives about to die because of these errors.



    Details
    Product: Windows Operating System
    Event ID: 51
    Source: Disk
    Version: 5.2
    Symbolic Name: IO_WARNING_PAGING_FAILURE
    Message: An error was detected on device %1 during a paging operation.

    Explanation
    An input/output (I/O) request to a memory-mapped file failed and the operation was retried.


    User Action
    If these events are logged regularly on a primary system drive, replace the device. Otherwise, no user action is required.


Comments

  • #2
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    It is dieing, Ghost it to another drive asap. Do not run a defrag or anything. So this as soon as possible.


  • #3
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    And also when replacing the drive... it would be better to get pretty much anything except a maxtor! The most useless and fault ridden hard drives i have ever come across!!


  • #4
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Feck. Okay this will be a weekend of backing up onto an external drive!

    Cheers :)


  • #5
    deadl0ck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,196 ✭✭✭deadl0ck


    It's on the way out alright.

    I've used Acronis True Image before to clone drives. It's very easy to use and IIRC you can get a Trial download which is fully functional for 30 days, which should suffice for you :)


  • #6
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Saruman wrote:
    The most useless and fault ridden hard drives i have ever come across!!
    Agreed. Every drive that has ever failed on me has been a Maxtor.


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  • #7
    pclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Have everything important backed up on external drive...weirdly XP has started to not boot and Vista on a different partition is working fine, faster then ever! Going to get a new internal drive this week and warranty this one.

    Board supports SATA silicone image and raid so was thinking of running two SATA 300Gb drives mirrored...


  • #8
    FastFullBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


    Saruman wrote:
    And also when replacing the drive... it would be better to get pretty much anything except a maxtor! The most useless and fault ridden hard drives i have ever come across!!

    Just going to hijack this thread for my own use. I was planning on buying one of these http://www.datakits.co.uk/store/altech-mediagate-mg35-500gb-high-definition-digital-media-driv-p-3096.html?osCsid=978ac52cd822756a77400921391d396d

    The device itself has got great reviews but this one comes with a Maxtor HD.

    Has anyone got any good feedback on Maxtor HD's or should I defo stay away?

    Thanks


  • #9
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,010 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    carrolltimmy wrote:
    Has anyone got any good feedback on Maxtor HD's or should I defo stay away?
    Another big smash-it-with-a-hammer vote for Maxtor. Flatmate got one of their external HDs and, after a few days, it made a sizzling sound and in conjunction fried all the data in there. We lost it all.

    Thumbs down.

    Always found Western Digital to be a good choice as an alternative.


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