truscotsman Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 (edited) i have havign a problem with my desktop pc at the moment it is an AMD 4000 std clock DFI nf4 SLI expert 2GB Ocz Platinum pc3200 2X1gb 2x XFX 7800gtx in sli 160 gig western digital hard drive ide (used to have a maxtor 80gig ide) windows XP Media Centre Edition'05 the problem is every5/6 boots my hard drive is becoming invalid & wont boot. i think windows has been reinstalled about 20 times in so far this year if not more. i am wondering if it could be a problem with the hard drive controller on the motherboard. the hard drive is connected to the primary channel & is the only ide drive on that channel. things i will be trying tomorrow 1. swapping the channels round so my combo drive & dvd burner are on the primary 2. swap the connector the HD is on 3. cable swap round has anyone had problems with the ide hard drive controller on this board before? or Windows XP MCE. or does any1 have any contructive suggestions? cheers in advance Edited May 6, 2008 by truscotsman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuppA-SnipA Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 well if u havnt touched cables since the problems started, swapping cables wont help, when u format to install xp, are u doing a quick format? or full? do a full, also look into something called "low level format" they run from dos and it writes zero's to ur hdd, cures a lot of problems if that doesnt work, buy a nice 500gb sata, they are cheap Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 Download HDD Health and see if it says your drive is bad, can't hurt to swap cables either, they go bad so easily. I am with SS on the new drive idea though, a SATAII drive would be a nice upgrade from IDE. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branjo Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 Uh Oh....... Thanks for the link Reel, looks like I better get my OS on a different drive ASAP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 Post a screenie of your SMART attributes and we'll know how bad it really is, that drive might still be ok for unimportant storage or something. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Stew Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 i don't know how accurate that software is, and 78% doesnt seem to be anthing to worry about, since my brand new samsung spinpoint scored 86%! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 nd my 400gig reports 65% lol........seems fine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 It's highly unlikely the SMART info is wrong, that's why I prefer to go by that. Trust me, my job at Flextronics is to do failure analysis on SorageTek BladeStore RAID arrays for SUN. This app is pretty good for a freebie, very similar to one of the in-house app I use at work to diagnose HDDs. BTW all my drives show 100% health, except for my 160GB Seagate. dr_bowtie has the same drive and it shows similar issues too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 That sucks, my 400 is only like 8 months old and as a 2nd hdd it hasnt exactly been thrashed by vista. My maxtor 250 which is 1.5 years old and has been thrashed by vista for just <1yr reports 82%. At what point would you consider it a problem or do you just wait for symptom's? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted May 14, 2008 Posted May 14, 2008 I am curious as to what the OP has to say and I don't't want to derail this thread any further, so I started another thread here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsernst Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Run a chkdisk on your hdd; That should tell you all you need to know about it. If it reports any errors, obviously something is wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truscotsman Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 got new cables & i seemed to have solved my problem. cheers guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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