Re: Help with diagnosis
- From: "S.Lewis" <Gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:13:03 -0600
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Ben Myers writes:
Ben> ahall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
writes>
>>
>>>>>>> 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...)
>>
Ben> Andrew,
Ben> Although I advocate running manufacturer diagnostics to assess hard
Ben> drive health, some of them are not perfect. And, for sure, you
need
Ben> the current version of one of the Seagate diagostics (there are
two!)
Ben> to check SATA drives. I suggest using the text-mode oriented
Seagate
Ben> diagnostic, rather than the one that runs with a GUI-type
interface.
I tried both the dos version and the windows one. Neither worked.
Perhaps
that is related to the disk problem.
Ben> Finally, download and run HDAT2 to get a look at the SMART
attributes
Ben> in all the drives... Ben Myers
I did turn on SMART monitoring in the bios, as well as turned off the fast
boot, but there were no warning messages. Now it is running MS ChkDsk
which
at its current rate will take about 4 days to complete. I am not sure
what
to do next. Perhaps just power down and take out the disk.
<snip>
Instead of taking the drive out entirely, just pull the power and data
cables after power down.
.
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