Hdd read/write

[fydh]

My pc keeps crashing when I dl anything. When it is rebooted it boots to the fourth boot device (nvidia boot age) and doesnt even detect my hdd. I did get

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

this and it said that I my read/write speed is 2.8mb/sec and I guess that I am supposed to have 7mb/sec and up!? So I was wondering if mabey my drive is bad or (i dont know). I have a Seagate ST380011a hdd. Any help would be great!

-Chris

 

[fydh]

I also got Seagate tools and it said that my NTFS failed the test.

 

[wolluf]

The seagate diagnostic said what - ntfs failed test? Did it say anything about status of the drive? It sounds like its failing, but I would have expected it to tell you about the drive, not ntfs.

Can you load recovery console and try chkdsk /r?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307654

(be prepared to lose the drive - if there's any data that's not backed up, probably lost barring expensive recovery service. Data recovery app (eg, getdataback) might do something, but not if you can't access the drive from windows (ie, try to load as slave in another machine).

 

[fydh]

It said that the drive was ok but the ntfs was bad so I did a format using seagate utilities and before I loaded windows it said ntfs was fine then I loaded windows and then it said ntfs was bad again. I can still use the drive (I am right now) but when I use bittorrent or something like that I crash and then I get an error when I look at computer management in the event viewer under system about ntfs failed to save data. When I run chkdsk everything is fine.

 

[fydh]

Any ideas?

 

[fydh]

Guess not thks

 

[wolluf]

running chkdsk /r is ok? That's surprising, if seagate utility telling you ntfs is bad (what exactly did it say?). Also I never format drives for use in windows using drive manufacturer's utilities - always use windows native tools (ie, disk manamgement in this case). It might be worth using something like killdisk to completely wipe the drive - then partition and format it under windows. Then run the Seagate diagnostic - if it shjows a problem, I'd either bin the drive (assuming its out of warranty - otherwise get a relacement), or use it for data that doesn't matter, so when it dies no problems.