I believe my one of my HHD’s is failing or is going to. I have two hard drives, one is a 500 GB which is my boot drive and a 1 TB one for storage with all my music, movies, documents, downloads and any other stuff I do not want on my boot drive. Recently I have been GETTING “write errors” from various programs and my computer is freezing at random points. When I unplug the TB drive when XP is loaded everything runs great with no problems. For a couple of days now when ever XP loads it runs chkdsk on my TB drive which only takes a few minutes and it never finds anything.
After that when I get into XP my computer runs sluggishly until I unplug the drive. Sometimes the BIOS takes a while to find the drive in POST.

I was wondering if it is failing or going to soon. I have not heard any unusual sound or felt any unusual vibrations as well as temps, it is cooler than my 500 GB.

I have replaced the SATA cables going to the drive as well as the power cable too. I recently ran a Hitachi Drive Fitness Tool for three hours and it returned with no errors. Because of the freezing I have not been able to run a defrag or virus scan for a week.

EVGA 780i SLI mobo
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2 GHz
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB x2 SLI
2 GB of OCZ SLI-ready RAM
500 GB Hitachi HHD (boot) and 1TB Hitachi (storage/backup)
Windows XP Pro SP3
Ubuntu 8.04 64bit i would say that its time to purchase a new HD or, if its still under warranty, get it replaced.

however, before you replace the HD, you might want to go over to hitachi's website and download one of their HD tools to confirm WHETHER or not the drive is failing.try windows vista
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windows xp sp3 driver issue
hdd problem "heat"
because all 300GB and upwords are corruptQuote from: vikramrmore on October 01, 2008, 11:46:47 PM

windows xp sp3 driver issue
hdd problem "heat"
because all 300GB and upwords are corrupt

however, before you replace the HD, you might want to go over to hitachi's website and download one of their HD tools to confirm whether or not the drive is failing.

because all 300GB and upwords are corrupt