Bad disk warning but chckdsk shows no bad sectors. (condition llisted as good in system manager) 2

[jlockley]

After a month's absence I returned to a white warning on a blsck screen that the year or so old boot drive (SEAGATE - BARRACUDA 1TB (1000-GB) 7200RPM) was bad, reboot, backup and replace. (not a direct quote).
Chckdsk / Disk Scan run after reboot shows the drive to be in good condition with no bad sectors, and disk management shows drive to be healthy.
On 9/10 (today) event viewer contains several reports that "The device has a bad block". There was an unexpected shut down earlier in the month which was apparently a power out, although I don't understand why the computer rebooted. The only weirdness I can find at all is that it lists as SCSI in device manager.
My gut feeling is that this is one of the screwy things that happens now and then, but I thought I'd see if group intelligence thinks otherwise.

 

[BadBigBen]

I would check the S.M.A.R.T. values, just to be on the safe side...

Ben
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[goombawaho]

I'd use the SEATOOLS program to check it out. That's the manufacture's diagnostic tool. Make sure to run the short test and then run the long test (even if the short test doesn't advise you to run the long test).

Theoretically, you should make sure your data is backed up before running the diagnostic.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

>>> Seatools for DOS bootable Cd.

You would want to have all other hard drives DISCONNECTED before booting to the Seatools CD.

 

[jlockley]

I owe you both. The disk is apparently on the verge of failure (or not?) I cloned it to a new Seagate 1tb drive, and have booted successfully to that. Eventually checkdisk reported four bad sectors and Windows began warnings by every start up.

However:

Now Acronis is reporting imminent drive failure on the new drive. (The entire drive is also successfully imaged to a second Seagate 1tb HDD.

Thinking this might also be a MB issue, I replaced the board (Time for upgrade anyway) and the PSI, which had pretty surely set everything off (burnt smell) so no issues there.

Since I doubt that cloning system and content transfers bad sectors as well, I suspect that the report comes from some benchmark. Any thoughts on what and how rid the system of it?

Thank you very, very much.

 

[BadBigBen]

On the new drive, run the SeaTools as well, I've seen NEW Seagates just die right after installing Windows (firmware bug)...

another thing you could do, would be to run CHKDSK on the new drive, and do a defrag... reason is that Windows logs all bad sectors and this is probably what Acronis is picking up, this is due to the cloning of the drive (imaging, as far a I know, does not copy that information but cloning might)...

Ben
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How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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[goombawaho]

[quoteOn the new drive, run the SeaTools as well, I've seen NEW Seagates just die right after installing Windows[/quote]
Exactly the correct course of action PLUS backup your data multiple times to CYA. You're on an unlucky streak, so take all precautions.

 

[jlockley]

I have it backed up to a second new Seagate drive. I assumed that the issue was the first disk, but after what you say it could be either. I ran SeaTools only on the cloned drive. Acronis has not reported a bad drive again. It was Acronis which reported the first time, not Windows. Will get back. Thank you again.

 

[jlockley]

Looks like the 2nd drive has a bad block. (&^(.! Now Asus MB won't let me into Bios. Probably see y'all over in Boards. This is a one hour operation. Why do 1 hour operations always take days?

 

[BadBigBen]

Why do 1 hour operations always take days?

Murphy's Law...

Ben
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[jlockley]

Apparently. Cant get to bios, won't recognize second drive (one bad block, maybe, but who knows at this point). Can't flash bios, because bios won't boot to thumb drive. Going to wherever MB's are Thx all for all. At least data is secure.