Recent content by Eki_thump

Hi rforce and popatim, thanks for your replies. I have followed the advice to have the damaged drive looked at, preliminary estimates started at AU$440. I have returned the disk to my friend to follow this up and decide. I didnt bother changing the mode to AHCI, the single disk seemed to run...

Thankyou everyone for your valued advice. The problem drive is reporting that it is healthy and has no SMART errors yet if I run Ashampoo HDD3 it reports around 700 bad sectors (I am not sure if this is an acceptable error level for this drive). I also noticed if I disconnect it from the...

Hi and thankyou for your response. It is an older PC with an INTEL LGA775 board. The SATA cables plug directly to the motherboard and are securely attached. SPECS are Motherboard : Intel LGA 775 (Model DG965WH) CPU: Intel 6600 Memory: 4 x 1GB Kingston (DDR2) Graphics: ASUS Geforce GTS450 SATA...

I am helping a friend repair their computer (they were given it and know nothing of its history). The problem I have is the BIOS shows the system is set up for Raid and on the POST it shows one drive is controlled by a Raid controller. I know nothing about raid and I dont know what flavour it...