Re: HDD suddenly failed, please help

Gary Read <guffygumpster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Gary Read <guffygumpster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I have an IBM IC35L120 HDD, set up as slave on IDE2, running Windows
XP SP2. I have an Asus A7V333 mobo. All was well until yesterday
when my system slowed then ground to a halt. I rebooted and then
did not have the drive available to me in My Computer. The drive
shows up in Device Manager with no warnings but in the Computer
Management console it is shown as 'Offline'. The first warnings I
can see in Event Manager is this: ('Gary' being the name of my
computer)

"Disk group GaryDg0: Errors in some configuration copies: Disk
Harddisk2, copy 1: Block 1: Invalid magic number in the
configuration copy" followed by:

"INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration
copies (C10000B6)"

then this:

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\D."

The only thing I can do in the Disk Management console is attempt to
reactivate the disk but Windows tells me that 'The operation did not
complete'.

The disk is just over a year old - I would be very grateful if
anyone could help me to get this thing going again.

Looks like the drive has died. See what Hitachi's
Drive Fitness Test says about the drive.

Hitachi bought the IBM hard drive business.

Thank you for your reply. I downloaded the utility and ran both the
basic and advanced tests, both of which returned a disposition code
of 0x00 which translates to 'No errors'. I wonder if this is good or bad
news?

Good as far as the drive dying is concerned.

Show the SMART data for the drive using Everest.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181


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