[HDD] Power problem

Tresezk · January 9th, 2012, 01:51 AM

Earlier some time ago I mentioned one of my HDDs looked to be corrupted but I couldn't find any corruption with HDD tools .
I have Windows 7 installed
It turns out when I change the "Turn off Hard disk after" (Power Plan) settings from 20 minutes to Never , the Hard disk gets uninstalled .
I have to rescan using "Scan for Hardware changes" in Device manager to detect the HDD .
Any thoughts on why this is happening ?

johnlgalt · January 9th, 2012, 07:54 PM

You looked for corruption - did you check SMART status?

Tresezk · January 9th, 2012, 09:51 PM

When I meant checked for corruption,
I checked SMART status ,Short DST ,Long DST , Surface Test ,SATA Cables ,Power Supply and Power Cables .

johnlgalt · January 9th, 2012, 10:00 PM

OK, just making sure lol.

Hmmm, if you disable auto power down, it loses...

holy smokes - can you touch the HD while the computer is running? If so, see if it is running hot....

Tresezk · January 10th, 2012, 12:52 AM

Now that you mention it .
Yes I can touch it .
It is running hot (not scalding hot ,more like warm fuzzy )
But my other two drives are running more warmer or hotter .
Also I have HDD fans individually

plus I have checked the ventilation and the case is clean

BlueBiker · January 10th, 2012, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnlgalt

Hmmm, if you disable auto power down, it loses...

holy smokes - can you touch the HD while the computer is running? If so, see if it is running hot....

That's good advice, although you'd expect the long self-test to trigger any overheating problems it might have (and a failed drive would be reported in the SMART info).

Is this in a RAID set? I've read about cases where drives not rated for RAID operation will be marked inoperative by the O/S if they don't respond to a drive request within some small number of milliseconds, as a true RAID drive must. (I don't think this is your problem, but I'm having trouble thinking of any other possibility.)

Tresezk · January 10th, 2012, 03:37 AM

Nope .
It's a solo 250GB SATA .
It just happened randomly after months .(I had a thread before which was similar )
I had dumped zeros on the drive with dd command and Formatted it .
It solved the problem,so I thought .
Repeating such process is a pain

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I guess I will have to do it .again .

BlueBiker · January 10th, 2012, 03:44 AM

You could swap cables / port assignments to make sure it's not some weird mobo chipset issue. But, um, if it keeps dying then why do you keep putting data on it?

Tresezk · January 10th, 2012, 05:58 AM

I also did that

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I have pegged it to be a driver issue or some malware (as john galt suggested last time )
The data is not that important

.It just has a lot of images and dumps which I use .
Wiping the drive I guess .

BlueBiker · January 10th, 2012, 06:25 AM

Why is this thread so green? I mean, what's up w/that?

Tresezk · January 10th, 2012, 07:39 AM

Computers and IT is all John Galt and SURoot

Occasionally 9to5cynic chips in .

johnlgalt · January 10th, 2012, 09:02 PM

The hell it is lol - I'm definitely subscribed to this forum, but there are plenty of other greenie beanies in here.

It's not just me and su...seriously.

Tresezk · January 19th, 2012, 06:44 AM

Power supply busted

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New Power supply
Seatools , dd , surface test , the works

I downloaded a nifty CD (Ultimate Boot CD ) .Contains a bunch of diagonistic stuff (Though I just needed Seatool DOS which I somehow couldnt boot via USB drive ) . Also I think I rarely use my DVD drive

.Huzzah for Bootable cheap USB drives .

Problem solved .