windows found a hard drive problem

[thebuilder79]

hi im bob and the other day i had a pop up saying windows found hard drive problems and it kept popping up. it was a 1tb drive. so i bought a new 500 gb drive to install from scratch. and after i got everything reinstalled the message popped back up yet again

 

[JaredDM]

Could be a bad cable or a bad SATA port on the motherboard. Also it's not a bad idea to check your power supply as it could be underpowering or dropping power during normal operation.

 

[thebuilder79]

Could be a bad cable or a bad SATA port on the motherboard. Also it's not a bad idea to check your power supply as it could be underpowering or dropping power during normal operation.

 

[rush21hit]

Have you tried to do some disk checking on C: ?

I too have the same problem a while back. Turns out it was a bad SATA cable. And another case was some missing/corrupt files rectified by disk checking.

 

[thebuilder79]

i think i just found the problem. i put the old drive in for drive d because i tested it after i installed the new drive so i felt is was something else like a virus causing the wrong message. but apparently its a bad drive, the sad part is, i just bought that drive less then 6 months ago from ebay. so why is all my test coming up with no problems with the drive, but windows is?

 

[rush21hit]

Who knows, man. Might be some conflict on the registry, but it could also be something else entirely.

Also, you might want to make sure the problematic drive is beyond salvation. Find some disk health check tools. Many of them are free. Just to make sure, get 2 or 3 different softwares for the same reason, and use them all. If all says about the same thing, you can decide from there.
I know I would do that.

 

[thebuilder79]

i will try that. any sujestions as to what programs to try?

 

[rush21hit]

HDTach, HDTool, HD Health...honestly there are plethora of options out there. You won't go wrong with either of them. All of them created for the same idea, to determine the health state of your disk.

Basically, all they would do is some read/write test. Some would go even further to check every single cluster.

Wish you all the best, and good luck.

 

[thebuilder79]

thank you. ill try them.

 

[thebuilder79]

the hard drive was bad. so i gather that hard drive you buy in todays world only last a max of 6 months

 

[rush21hit]

Well, my 500GB Western Digital survived and work well for the last 3 years now, so I cannot assert my sentiment towards latest products. Still, hardware failure is to be expected to certain degree because the nature of mass produced stuff. Among many other things that could cause it as well.

iirc, drives are tend to have at least a year replacement warranty. Components has up to 3 years warranty coverage by average. Might want to look up for that too. Who knows, it might still covered by warranty.

Which reminds me that I forgot to ask, what brand is this problematic drive of yours?