Author Topic: Bloom ... Raptor prob continued (Read 305 times)

boxboy28 · « **on:** March 02, 2004, 08:56:06 AM »

Well i got it all reformated and the used norton ghost to mirror the drive ran good for about 2 days!
Then i went to reboot and again and every sector on the drive could not be read, got into window to scan disk it couldnt complete the run. Ran WD diag tool finds no problems!

is this thing dead? heck it ran fine from Jan till end of Feb when all this started.

I didnt notice when i mirrored it and took out the old drive it wouldnt boot but i had the bios set to boot from it (SCSI divice)
all SATA drivers we installed too.

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2004, 03:21:48 PM »

Do you have a different Serial ATA cable you can try and/or move the drive to a different serial ata connector?

boxboy28 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2004, 05:52:27 PM »

well after my inital problem i put a new SATA cable on it then......

Reallocated the drive a a Hard drive in window disk managment(it was seeing it as a removable divice i.e. CDROM)
then reformated it to NTFS

ran it fine thought WD diagnotics test both Quick and Extended tests.

Goth a bopy of Norton Ghost and did a mirror copy over to the new disk (when i reinstalled XP pro on the other drive last time i add the SATA controller drives knowing the SATA would be back in the system at some point)

Went into the bios and switch it over to boot off the SATA by setting it to SCSI drive as the only boot drive out side of the floppy. it booted fine but seemed slow!

Rebooted and I removed the IDE drives cable and it would get almost to the ADMIN splash screen where you sign on but wouldnt boot.

I rehooked up the IDE drive but didnt change to boot preferance of using the SATA drive as the only bootable Hard drive.(all other bootable divices is turned off in bios)

Booted fine but slow

ran like that all Saterday and Sunday.
Monday i goto reboot and every sector on the disc is unreadable again, and scan dick cant fix it!

now i have reformated it but for sheeots and gig's i tryed to run scan dis on it this morning and its stuck at Phase 5 LOL its been sitting here all day!

Im thinking it best to RMA this is fast as possible but will hold off till i entertain any ideas you have......................
****i hanet tryied the other SATA connecter yet but will later tonight!****

Thanks Box

ChasR · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2004, 05:58:14 PM »

You don't have both the SATA power connector AND the standard 4 pin power connected to the drive do you? That could fry it.
It shouln't boot at all as a SCSI device.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2004, 07:07:49 PM »

LOL i know to only plug in on spowere sorce! but from what ive understood to make the MOBO recignize the SATA drive you set the boot to SCSI device.

ChasR · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2004, 10:29:14 AM »

On Abit mobos (NF7 & IC7) the boot device must be set to Serial ATA.
We'd probably both be surprised by how many people bought OEM drives without instructions and assumed if there's a socket, something must be plugged into it.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2004, 11:27:56 AM »

too true but ASUS A7N8X -d thats not an option in the bios...you need to set tit to SCSI but thats not the problem here!

well i ran home at lunch and finally got an Email from WD after i was telling them i couldnt get the WD DATA LIFE GAURD TOOLS to run in windows and they told me to run ity in safe mode which i did and i ran all the diagnostic test which it passes!

Now i got it seting up the RAptor and doing a complete bootable drive copy ............. i hope this fixes it perminantly (but i doubt it)

last time it lasted 3 days!

boxboy28 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2004, 10:06:39 AM »

well its getting RMA'ed today!