DumpALump
12-16-09, 01:43 AM
So I've been having random complete freezes on my computer and everything is at stock settings. Randomly decided to run HDTune, since I wanted to see how my new boot drive SSD compared to my other drives. Noticed there were some problems with one of my AAKS. I then moved all the files off of it (there were only about 15gbs on there) onto another drive. Tested again and same thing.
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1737/originalsatacable.gif
Then I tested my other WD5000AAKS drive and it turns out normal
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8103/healthy500aaks.gif
I reformat it, same thing. So then I remove my healthy 500aaks and plug the power/sata cable from the healthy one into the going bad one and same thing.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/750/swappedsatacable.gif
HDTach
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1194/hdtach.gif
Here's the odd thing, when I run HDTune error scan it comes up with no errors. I've ran WD's 2 scans + write 0's to drive a couple times and they all pass. I ran checkdisk and it just says finished.
Then I ran spinrite and it said that the partition was bad on the drive. So I removed the partition then ran spinrite and it came up with a bunch of damaged sectors that it "recovered" data from. Not sure what data since I thought I wrote 0's to it a few times.
Then after spinrite finished today, I tried going into windows disk management and it would freeze. So I booted up my Vista repair disk (I'm on XP btw) and created a partition with diskpart. Booted back into winxp and formatted the drive. Then I ran HD Tune on it again and it was even worse than before. Then my computer froze again.
So I'm pretty sure its dying and I would like to RMA it, but WD tools and HD Tune both show no bad sectors. What would cause something like this? I don't want to try to RMA only for them to say the drive is good then charge me or something for it.
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1737/originalsatacable.gif
Then I tested my other WD5000AAKS drive and it turns out normal
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8103/healthy500aaks.gif
I reformat it, same thing. So then I remove my healthy 500aaks and plug the power/sata cable from the healthy one into the going bad one and same thing.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/750/swappedsatacable.gif
HDTach
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1194/hdtach.gif
Here's the odd thing, when I run HDTune error scan it comes up with no errors. I've ran WD's 2 scans + write 0's to drive a couple times and they all pass. I ran checkdisk and it just says finished.
Then I ran spinrite and it said that the partition was bad on the drive. So I removed the partition then ran spinrite and it came up with a bunch of damaged sectors that it "recovered" data from. Not sure what data since I thought I wrote 0's to it a few times.
Then after spinrite finished today, I tried going into windows disk management and it would freeze. So I booted up my Vista repair disk (I'm on XP btw) and created a partition with diskpart. Booted back into winxp and formatted the drive. Then I ran HD Tune on it again and it was even worse than before. Then my computer froze again.
So I'm pretty sure its dying and I would like to RMA it, but WD tools and HD Tune both show no bad sectors. What would cause something like this? I don't want to try to RMA only for them to say the drive is good then charge me or something for it.