Re: Help with diagnosis

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BillW50 writes:
BillW50> CTRL-L should show toggle it on and off.

> I did that, but no data showed up there.

> However I do now have some clues.

> A backup of my whole 2nd disk went fine --- 1.5 hours, no
> hang up.

> Within about 10 seconds of starting to back up the third
> hard drive the event occurred. Looking at the Process Explorer
> the DPCs were taking up about 25% of CPU (one whole core).

> I powered down, then booted to safe mode with networking, launched
> Process Explorer and SyncBack, and again it slowed to a crawl within
> less than 30 seconds, with a lot of DPCs CPU time.

> So I am running some diagnostics on that disk.

The SeaGate disk tool I had crashed (I think maybe it did the
first time I tried to use it).

I will now reboot into the Windows disk checker.


> Any other ideas?

> Thanks again,


> -- > Andrew Hall
> (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...)



Andrew,

Although I advocate running manufacturer diagnostics to assess hard drive health, some of them are not perfect. And, for sure, you need the current version of one of the Seagate diagostics (there are two!) to check SATA drives. I suggest using the text-mode oriented Seagate diagnostic, rather than the one that runs with a GUI-type interface.

Finally, download and run HDAT2 to get a look at the SMART attributes in all the drives... Ben Myers
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