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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You : Lounge : HD problems [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List Lanshire   Posted 9th Jul 2009 11:07pm L4Y Member Post 99 / 189 My Main drive is a SATA and my slave drive is a IDE.. (Seagate Barracuda 100Gi have been running it that way for like 6 months with no problem at all.. then all of the sudden one day i started up the computer and sometimes it will load and sometimes it will not load at all..( can get to desktop sometimes before it restarts itself) and sometimes it just restarts itself before i get to the desktop anyway.. so after i removed the slave ( IDE) everything works fine.. what do you think i did wrong? Or is there a way to run diagnostics on the slave.. Which program should i use? ( remember it has to be a bootable CD or DVD. Thanks Lan     sobe    Posted 10th Jul 2009 12:57am Post 3103 / 3194 I'd take it to a friend's pc and see if it will boot up on theirs. If not, then it may have failed epically. It's always good to have one other pc in your home, even if it's an older piece of crap. Can be useful "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006    Modified Jul 10th, 12:58am by sobe Lanshire   Posted 10th Jul 2009 1:01am L4Y Member Post 100 / 189 Hi SObe.. yeah i tried it on another computer that i have and its doing the same thing. Lan     sobe    Posted 10th Jul 2009 1:17am Post 3104 / 3194 Sorry, but it seems like that drive is dead. Did you use the same IDE cable as in your original pc? If so, then try another. The cable might be acting up(doubtful, but at least you can be assured by testing). Otherwise, I'd say the drive is dead. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     Lanshire   Posted 10th Jul 2009 3:24am L4Y Member Post 102 / 189 Man.. I certainly hope not.. I tried with another IDE cord and it did the same thing. I got like 70 Gigs of stuff on there (Including my ghosts backups) Lan     Beatonator    Posted 10th Jul 2009 10:25am Post 3085 / 3716 My PC started doing the same thing a while ago. Turns out my partition table had become corrupt (apparently). It was fixed with a format. Try that before you ditch it. If you need to get your stuff off of it, try using a USB HDD caddy? As you can load it on the fly that way, you can plug it in AFTER windows has booted and get transfering before it messes up. Worth a shot! Other option is do a low-level format and then try to recover the files? Trying to find old players. Anyone about? Drop me a PM or reply to this thread: >Link< (or head over to RFrun.net's comment section!)     Lanshire   Posted 16th Jul 2009 7:08pm L4Y Member Post 103 / 189 I guess i better get a USB thing and try it.. i definatley dont want to Format or Low level the drive as it has all of my stuff on it. I am sure what you are saying is right though. I could do a recovery process.. but that would take too damn long i am sure. What is the proper name for the USb thingy that i need? Lan     sobe    Posted 16th Jul 2009 9:08pm Post 3107 / 3194 Oh, I was under the impression you exausted the ability to format already. USB External Harddrive mount, or something of the sort is what you will be looking for. Otherwise you can take a look at hot-swappable external devices that will work with SATA/IDE wherein you can take a drive and just slide it into a ported device. Thermaltake BlackX is such a device for SATA. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     Lanshire   Posted 16th Jul 2009 9:19pm L4Y Member Post 104 / 189 Ok thanks sobe! Lan

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