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Posted: 1/25/2006 1:32:46 AM EDT
Well, night before last I was copying disks like a madman and everything was going fine...yesterday evening, I go to power up and as it runs through the BIOS screen, everything is fine with the SATA striped RAID, but when it's supposed to go to the next screen "select operating system" (dual-boot machine) it hangs for a few seconds then compes up with
<disk read failure press control-alt-delete to restart> Now I have Win XP on each of 2 ide drives on channel one, two dvd-rs on channel 2...connected to the router/cable modem by rj45 cable, but not much web activity on this machine. Laptop was logged into Azureus for torrent downloads.. all day/night and is still running fine. Could it be as simple as a loose cable? ANy suggestions before I tear into it this afternoon? My first thought is to take each drive and put it in a usb2 enclosure to see if it's a physical problem....but BOTH drives at once?? 
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Posted: 1/25/2006 5:02:33 AM EDT
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cables don't just come loose unless the system has been dropped. even then its rare.
I was using my main system on friday night. playing a music video, surfing the web, my harddrive started clicking then bamm my mouse stopped moving and the whole system locked up. that was my 2nd WD SE 120GB hardrive that died 1 month out of warranty. i would say out of all components in a computer harddrive's crap out the most. most companies have a diagnostic utility on thiieir web page. you download it put it on a floppy or cd and run a full diag on your drive, to see if its failing. im doing that at work right now on a seagate drive as we speak luckily i didn't need anything on my drive, sure their was stuff i'd like to have. that is why you back up your sh** |
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Posted: 1/25/2006 4:28:51 PM EDT
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It is very unlikely both drives failed at once.
It could be the cable I have seen it happen. Open the case reset the cables or better yet exchange them for known good cables. It is possible the boot loader is messed up this is not uncommon on dual boot machines. |
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