- Joined
- Aug 27, 2003
- Location
- Mississauga, Ontario
I have a WD 7200RPM 200GB HDD (8MB cache) along with other drives.
My problem with this drive is that it only works for about 1 month, then the S.M.A.R.T. message starts comming up. The drive still works, but XP will kick the drive out after about 2 days of being on, every time. When I reboot, the cycle starts again.
Twice in the last 6 months the drive failed with bad sectors reported by XP, and XP wouldn't "see" the drive anymore. So I ran the WD diag software in dos, format the drive, and it becomes normal again, with no S.M.A.R.T. message, and NO bad sectors. After a few weeks, same thing starts again. I called WD and they told me they can replace it, but this is my last option, and that I why I am here.
After reading a few threads here, I found out that everyone seems to say not to connect optical drives on the same cable as a HDD? Could this be the problem? My hdd is a master, my cd-rw is the slave. Right now as I type I have disabled the master in XP device manager, so the HD doesn't show up anymore (also removed it from BIOS), but the cd-rw still works fine (I have power going into the master WD). Could the way I have it setup be the problem? Maybe try to run the drive by itself? I just never thought this could be the culprit.
XP also could be a problem, the reason I am thinking this is because after I format the drive, it seems perfectly fine again, so it seems like its a file allocation error or something, not bad sectors as XP reports. S.M.A.R.T is confusing me too..
Thank you!
My problem with this drive is that it only works for about 1 month, then the S.M.A.R.T. message starts comming up. The drive still works, but XP will kick the drive out after about 2 days of being on, every time. When I reboot, the cycle starts again.
Twice in the last 6 months the drive failed with bad sectors reported by XP, and XP wouldn't "see" the drive anymore. So I ran the WD diag software in dos, format the drive, and it becomes normal again, with no S.M.A.R.T. message, and NO bad sectors. After a few weeks, same thing starts again. I called WD and they told me they can replace it, but this is my last option, and that I why I am here.
After reading a few threads here, I found out that everyone seems to say not to connect optical drives on the same cable as a HDD? Could this be the problem? My hdd is a master, my cd-rw is the slave. Right now as I type I have disabled the master in XP device manager, so the HD doesn't show up anymore (also removed it from BIOS), but the cd-rw still works fine (I have power going into the master WD). Could the way I have it setup be the problem? Maybe try to run the drive by itself? I just never thought this could be the culprit.
XP also could be a problem, the reason I am thinking this is because after I format the drive, it seems perfectly fine again, so it seems like its a file allocation error or something, not bad sectors as XP reports. S.M.A.R.T is confusing me too..
Thank you!
