2tb drive problem...

[xtkxhom3r]

has anyone ever had any problems with the WD 2tb drives??? iv never had a problem with any of my 1tb WD hdd's and today i got a smart event error on windows 7

its asking me to backup all my info because my hdd is about to die

so what could cause this problem? should i not buy anymore of these 2tb drives??? iv only had it for like 2 weeks or so

[SP-JESTER]

i doubt its the hard drive... Probably Windows 7 seeing how they still working on it, remember one more release to go, if they stick to vista's plan. Just try to update ur HD driver or just keep ignoring till it finally goes away lol

[xtkxhom3r]

lol i dont know man i dont want to just ignore it and then have it die on me all of a sudden... i had that happen to me once it wasnt very nice...lol

plus it has 2 tb worth of high def movies i dont want to lose all of that

[SP-JESTER]

see if your bios has a hard drive check utility or use the disk check for bad sectors

[xtkxhom3r]

yea after im done backing everything up ill do that... i was actually thinking about the WD drive tools thing...

[SP-JESTER]

lol ok good luck bro. im sure itll be fine, have faith in WD :)

[PsycoPhreak]

The WD diagnostic utility for windows should be able to read the "smart" data from the drive and tell you what the error is/was. I would, just as a precaution, run through the tests available with the WD software just to rule out a failure of the drive itself though. It wouldn't be a great thing to lose the potential amount of data that drive can store... :bang head

It could be as simple as a bad cable, or even the drive not spinning up fast enough out of a sleep cycle, and "timing out" causing a "smart event" to be recorded in windows (and possibly the drive).

I had a WD drive that used to throw those errors all day long. It's still running fine, I just don't ever let it "sleep" when in use anymore, and it's never once lost any data and passes any torture tests I can throw at it...

[xtkxhom3r]

The WD diagnostic utility for windows should be able to read the "smart" data from the drive and tell you what the error is/was. I would, just as a precaution, run through the tests available with the WD software just to rule out a failure of the drive itself though. It wouldn't be a great thing to lose the potential amount of data that drive can store... :bang head

It could be as simple as a bad cable, or even the drive not spinning up fast enough out of a sleep cycle, and "timing out" causing a "smart event" to be recorded in windows (and possibly the drive).

I had a WD drive that used to throw those errors all day long. It's still running fine, I just don't ever let it "sleep" when in use anymore, and it's never once lost any data and passes any torture tests I can throw at it...

Awesome man you got my hopes up lol

i want to run those tests but i dont want those tests to push the drive off the edge if it is about to die... so i want to backup my drive before i do it lol

i have about 600 more gigs to go :attn:

[xtkxhom3r]

well this is the smart error im getting re-allocated sector count

i called WD about it and they told me my drive is dieing...

i can either format it and hope for the best or just rma it

so i think im just going to rma **** it

[xtkxhom3r]

well on 6-1-2009 at 5:03pm my 2tb WD drive died i wasnt even able to backup half of my movies :cry::cry::cry:

i had like 90sum more movies to go oh well now to try to remember everything i had...

[PsycoPhreak]

Wow, I would have never thought it was that bad of a failure... sorry to hear. At least WD will replace the drive, unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done about the data...

It happens though, but just after one reallocation error? Or were there multiple and Windows finally decided to report it... Talk about dropping dead... I'm guessing a head took a dump... You could try sticking it in the freezer for a while and then trying to recover the rest of the data, it has worked many times in the past for many people...

Again, sorry to hear of such an unexpected failure...

[xtkxhom3r]

yea its in the freezer right now lol i stuck it in there lastnight and i forgot to take it out...if you hadnt told me it wouldve been there for a while haha

the threshold was 140 and by the time i got those errors and checked the smart info it was down to 44... so im guessing windows detected it kinda late??

and yea i called wd up and their going to send me a new one...

[xtkxhom3r]

well i connected the drive through a external usb thing because i didnt want the condensation to kill the sata controller on my mobo lol... and well it didnt work... so i opened up the wd tools and i got the same error

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z182/xtkxhom3r/dead.jpg

looks like it s a lost cause