HD causing crashes

Hi guys,

I've been having a problem which seems to be due my slave SATA drive.

Windows Explorer froze and disappeared a few nights a ago. I tried restarting with good ole ALT CTRL DEL but got no response. I then pressed the power btn. When the PC started up again. The windows logo came up then when to a black screen with zero display, rebooted a few times and got this. I opened up the case and disconnected the SATA cable from the second HD and booted without it, it started up fine. After reconnecting it b4 the next boot up Windows stated it needed to do a consistency check of that HD (it does that almost every boot now) NO errors. If I'm using my video editing software to access a file saved on that HD after a while I see my friend the good ole BLUE SCREEN "Windows had to shut down to prevent ....." . This also happens when I watch videos from it or try to transfer files. There are some important files saved on it that I need I can access them but I can't transfer them.

Whats wrong???

OS: XP SP2
MOBO: ABIT KN8 SLI
CPU: AMD 64 X2 4200
HD (primary): A western digital SATA 250 Gigs
HD (slave): same
GFX: evga e-GeForce 7800 GT

- no recent hardware or software changes (attached my camcorder for the first time in months via firewire, thats it)


Thanks for reading

 

What happens when you try to transfer? The operation doesn't complete and blue screens?

Try the data Lifeguard Tools from WD. Since you can boot downloading the Windows version should be fine. Choose the slave drive to test.

I would run the short test for a quick idea if it sees a problem and then the long test to see if it can repair any errors. If it finds errors and fixes them backup your data and replace the drive because once a drive starts getting errors they appear more and more frequently. If you have problems running the test try letting the computer sit powered down for a few hours before trying the test again.

 

Thanks Sach2

Yes exactly that.

I did a quick scan with Western Digital's diagnostics tool. And the drive passed.
Gonna try an extended test next.

Cheers

 

I tried running the extented test in windows and it crashed. I then ran it in DOS and the scan found no errors.

On start up windows did a consistency check of the drive again. :cry

Any ideas?