Hard disk stops after a while

[Stoemp]

Hi,

I have a problem with one of my harddisks. While I'm working, the harddisk suddenly stops turning and after a few minutes I get a blue screen in XP that there was a HD failure and that I have to check if all hardware is connected as it should. Very strange because sometimes it works and then after a while it just stops without warning.

I have to tell that the trouble started after I did some changes : I got rid of the removable racks where the 2 harddrives where in before because the cooler in one of the racks made a hell of a noise. So I placed the harddisks where they should be and now I get the trouble. It's my primary slave.

Anyone an idea what goes wrong here. I get it almost in every 'session', but it happens one time after 2 minutes, another time after 20.

I'm pretty much desperate. All my personal documents are stored on that drive + a complete 15Gb backup of my personal CD collection.

Thanks a lot,
Steven

 

[edfair]

Time to throw a fan on it and salvage whatever you can get off it. Ususally a symptom of heat related motor control problems.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[SkipCox]

Yup, get the data copied now. Sooner or later, likely sooner, it will die on you.

Skip

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[techkiwi]

Could also be a faulty or loose IDE cable or power cable. The push-on ribbon type IDE cables are susceptible to going faulty because people pull them off by the ribbon. If it's a bit tight the ribbon cable can start pulling off the little pins on the actual connector.

Best way to test it is throw it into another system if possible. Failing that, get hold of another IDE cable and/or use a different power plug (you should have a few to choose from hopefully).

Graham

 

[micker377]

I've found that the 80 wire cables "die" much quicker than the old 40 wire. Any time I have a hard drive problem, the first thing I do is replace the cable.

 

[Stoemp]

Thank you guys. I'll try and replace the cable. I hope it works. Otherwise I guess I'll just buy a new HD.