- Jul 24, 2009
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My desktop started having some problems a little while ago. Finally, last week, I decided it was time for a reformat. After reformatting (back to Vista Home Premium 32bt), everything seemed to be going alright… that is, until I reattached my other internal hard drives.
I currently have a C drive which I use for the OS and programs (320gb); an E drive which I use for documents (500gb); and an F drive which I use for videos (1.5tb). Only the C drive was reformatted, and I detached both the other drives during the process to protect them.
However, now the 1.5 drive (Seagate ST31500341AS) is having some pretty serious problems. Whenever I try to browse through the drive, things get very VERY slow, and occasionally crash. I’ve attempted to do a “chkdsk” on it, but the first few times it seemed to hang and fail. Right now, I’m running a chkdsk /f /r (via the command prompt)… and we’re going on hour 20. So far, it’s made it to stage 4 of 5, and found two “bad cluster” errors. It presently reads: “10 percent complete. (604 of 76336)”
This can’t be right. If I leave it alone, and it continues to find errors, it could take WEEKS! What should I do now? Is it possible that my cables are bad? That the hard drive has become corrupt and needs a reformat itself? Is the drive dying? For now, I’m going to leave it doing it’s thing, but (as I said) this can’t be right!
Please help!!!!!
(PS- I tried to use Seagate’s diagnostic tool, “SeaTools for Windows,” but it couldn’t do the most basic of checks… it couldn’t even find the model number of my drives! Should I try using their DOS version, or does this imply a larger problem?)
I currently have a C drive which I use for the OS and programs (320gb); an E drive which I use for documents (500gb); and an F drive which I use for videos (1.5tb). Only the C drive was reformatted, and I detached both the other drives during the process to protect them.
However, now the 1.5 drive (Seagate ST31500341AS) is having some pretty serious problems. Whenever I try to browse through the drive, things get very VERY slow, and occasionally crash. I’ve attempted to do a “chkdsk” on it, but the first few times it seemed to hang and fail. Right now, I’m running a chkdsk /f /r (via the command prompt)… and we’re going on hour 20. So far, it’s made it to stage 4 of 5, and found two “bad cluster” errors. It presently reads: “10 percent complete. (604 of 76336)”
This can’t be right. If I leave it alone, and it continues to find errors, it could take WEEKS! What should I do now? Is it possible that my cables are bad? That the hard drive has become corrupt and needs a reformat itself? Is the drive dying? For now, I’m going to leave it doing it’s thing, but (as I said) this can’t be right!
Please help!!!!!
(PS- I tried to use Seagate’s diagnostic tool, “SeaTools for Windows,” but it couldn’t do the most basic of checks… it couldn’t even find the model number of my drives! Should I try using their DOS version, or does this imply a larger problem?)
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