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WD Hard Drive & Partition Failure.
Name: Eric Date: December 1, 2003 at 06:16:45 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: AMD 1700/512
Comment:
I have a 60GB WD HD which is less than a year old. For the past six months I would hear clicking out of the drive, but I was unsure whether it was the new WD since I also have a 20GB WD and a 6GB WD installed. I swithced around the master/slave drives and eventually the clicking went away.
Now I woke up this morning and all of a sudden a partition on the 60GB is coming up as a Local Drive (instead of the label I originally gave it). It also says when I try to access it that it is unformatted and asks me if I want to format it. The computer is also working very slowly. I can boot off the c: drive (which too is part of the 60GB harddrive), but the other partition that seemingly lost its data is not accessible. Is the data probably lost? Is my drive gone or going or should I just re-format that partition?
If I need to buy a need HD, should I do a mirror image of my current c: drive to the new drive's c: partition or re-install the o/s from scratch?
Name: Eric Date: December 1, 2003 at 06:18:35 Pacific
Reply:
Oh, and it should be noted that the WD lifeguard utilities in Windows said the drive has failed and sets me up for the RMA process.
Is it really possible to have a partition fail like this and still be able to access the rest of the drive and such a problem can't be cured by just re-formatting that partition?
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Response Number 2
Name: Petit Jean Date: December 1, 2003 at 08:51:58 Pacific
Reply:
I recently had a WD drive that kept loosing the formatting on the C bootable portion(10 Go out of 40 Go).I tried the Lifeguard utility to write zero's to the whole drive and used the fdisk and format utilities to get it back to work.Virus?Other unknown problems?I don't know..Good luck.
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Response Number 3
Name: jim Date: December 1, 2003 at 11:39:37 Pacific
Reply:
I would trust the WD diagnostic that said the drive is bad. I wouldn't try to salvage it.
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