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hard drive errorsI installed a new Samsung 160G hard drive in a system as a system drive
but I am constantly getting errors on it. The hard drive is partitioned
in three parts:
1. boot 2. 50G of files 3. empty 20G Strangely I get errors even on the empty partition. The machine is now running WIN2000 win SP4. Usually I can run chkdsk and fix it. However, sooner or later the errors get enough so that I cannont even do a chkdsk (I just got my STOP error an hour after reinstalling). The machine used to hang up for a couple of weeks before it got a new hard drive, no disk errors however. It was rock stable for over a year being turned off once a week on average. Any advices will be appreciated. Shall I assume that I got a defective hard drive, or maybe something has gone wrong with the controller...? Thank you. -- ellon01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html The usual method is to download and run the diagnostic
tool disk that Samsung make available on their home site. Show quoteHide quote "ellon01" <ellon01.1mm***@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message news:ellon01.1mmwp0@mail.webservertalk.com... > > I installed a new Samsung 160G hard drive in a system as a system drive > but I am constantly getting errors on it. The hard drive is partitioned > in three parts: > 1. boot > 2. 50G of files > 3. empty 20G > Strangely I get errors even on the empty partition. > The machine is now running WIN2000 win SP4. Usually I can run chkdsk > and fix it. However, sooner or later the errors get enough so that I > cannont even do a chkdsk (I just got my STOP error an hour after > reinstalling). > > The machine used to hang up for a couple of weeks before it got a new > hard drive, no disk errors however. > It was rock stable for over a year being turned off once a week on > average. > > Any advices will be appreciated. Shall I assume that I got a defective > hard drive, or maybe something has gone wrong with the controller...? > Thank you. > > > > -- > ellon01 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html > I did that. The test hung up on the first attempt and passed
successfully on the second one. I have tested the memory before and
did it again - everything is fine. All temperatures are within limits,
no overclocking, and still no clue.
Please help. -- ellon01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html Seeing that you get errors reported for the empty partition,
I would now seek a "second opinion" by doing this: - Turn the empty partition into a FAT32 partition. - Format it. - Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com). - Run ScanDisk on the FAT32 partition. - On completion, run a surface check. The results should give you an idea about what's wrong. Don't forget that you might have a controller problem. To isolate them, you would need to test your disk in some other Win2000 PC. Show quoteHide quote "ellon01" <ellon01.1mo***@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message news:ellon01.1moj1a@mail.webservertalk.com... > > I did that. The test hung up on the first attempt and passed > successfully on the second one. I have tested the memory before and > did it again - everything is fine. All temperatures are within limits, > no overclocking, and still no clue. > Please help. > > > > -- > ellon01 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html > Have you enabled 48-bit LBA?
Show quoteHide quote "ellon01" <ellon01.1mm***@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message news:ellon01.1mmwp0@mail.webservertalk.com... > > I installed a new Samsung 160G hard drive in a system as a system drive > but I am constantly getting errors on it. The hard drive is partitioned > in three parts: > 1. boot > 2. 50G of files > 3. empty 20G > Strangely I get errors even on the empty partition. > The machine is now running WIN2000 win SP4. Usually I can run chkdsk > and fix it. However, sooner or later the errors get enough so that I > cannont even do a chkdsk (I just got my STOP error an hour after > reinstalling). > > The machine used to hang up for a couple of weeks before it got a new > hard drive, no disk errors however. > It was rock stable for over a year being turned off once a week on > average. > > Any advices will be appreciated. Shall I assume that I got a defective > hard drive, or maybe something has gone wrong with the controller...? > Thank you. > > > > -- > ellon01 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html > Now I did (EnableBigLba = 0x1). I really had no idea that I need to do
this manually. It is difficult to believe that Microsoft did not
include it in SP4. I had to learn it the hard way, loosing a few gigs
of information in the process.
Thank you. -- ellon01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.webservertalk.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.webservertalk.com/message983236.html 
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