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Robert Blackwell
I have a strange problem. I got a new computer and over the last couple of
days I've been transferring stuff from my old computer to this one. Also,
I've connected the second hd I had as a slave since that had all my
music/vids/photos on it. One thing I noticed is that when I was transferring
files from the old hd's to the new all sounds comming from my computer would
get heavily distorted or produce rapid beeping (if you ever saw independence
day it sounds like the noise their radar made when the bigass ufo came into
screen). Well, I was after all transferring about 60 gigs over. Also, I
tried running some tools like testdisk_win and VirtualLab Classic cause one
of my partitions got lost. I also got the heavy distortion when using those.
Okay, so that made me believe that those programs were heavily accessing the
drives which might makes sense that they should have exclusive use or else
this kinda thing might happen.
But, it was happening with everysound out of my computer, and even from
music files not on the HD's being scanned. And why would it also happen when
I'm not using those disk programs, but even when I'm just searching for
files? Then I tried scanning my primary drive 160gb sata and there wasn't a
single problem. Not only was there no noise distortion, but the scanning was
going very fast, compared to when I scanned the other drives it was going
VERY slow. (all my drives are 7200 rpm)
I also installed the virtual lab program on another computer scanned the
main disk and it gave no problems either.
I'm at a loss. I dont know what to think because the problem doesn't occur
when I scan the primary OS HD but only when I do it to the slave (couldn't
test this on the second computer cause it only has one hd with 2 partitions
and no slave drives) but I could at least confirm it didn't happen on the
primary disk.
I've even connected a second HD as a slave to test this and scanning that
drive also produces the insane distortions. Both HD's are maxtors, one is an
80gb ata133 and the other is 160gb ata133. the 80gb is about 3 or 4 years
old and the 160gb is about 6 months old.
Now, when I'm not searching the drives I can access files regularly without
problems. But why a problem now all a sudden? Especially when the 160gb was
primary on my old computer and the 80gb was slave I had no problems like
this at all. I was almost going to blame this on a bad sound card but
considering the testing I did, it only happens when scanning the slave HD's,
I highly doubt it's sound card related.
days I've been transferring stuff from my old computer to this one. Also,
I've connected the second hd I had as a slave since that had all my
music/vids/photos on it. One thing I noticed is that when I was transferring
files from the old hd's to the new all sounds comming from my computer would
get heavily distorted or produce rapid beeping (if you ever saw independence
day it sounds like the noise their radar made when the bigass ufo came into
screen). Well, I was after all transferring about 60 gigs over. Also, I
tried running some tools like testdisk_win and VirtualLab Classic cause one
of my partitions got lost. I also got the heavy distortion when using those.
Okay, so that made me believe that those programs were heavily accessing the
drives which might makes sense that they should have exclusive use or else
this kinda thing might happen.
But, it was happening with everysound out of my computer, and even from
music files not on the HD's being scanned. And why would it also happen when
I'm not using those disk programs, but even when I'm just searching for
files? Then I tried scanning my primary drive 160gb sata and there wasn't a
single problem. Not only was there no noise distortion, but the scanning was
going very fast, compared to when I scanned the other drives it was going
VERY slow. (all my drives are 7200 rpm)
I also installed the virtual lab program on another computer scanned the
main disk and it gave no problems either.
I'm at a loss. I dont know what to think because the problem doesn't occur
when I scan the primary OS HD but only when I do it to the slave (couldn't
test this on the second computer cause it only has one hd with 2 partitions
and no slave drives) but I could at least confirm it didn't happen on the
primary disk.
I've even connected a second HD as a slave to test this and scanning that
drive also produces the insane distortions. Both HD's are maxtors, one is an
80gb ata133 and the other is 160gb ata133. the 80gb is about 3 or 4 years
old and the 160gb is about 6 months old.
Now, when I'm not searching the drives I can access files regularly without
problems. But why a problem now all a sudden? Especially when the 160gb was
primary on my old computer and the 80gb was slave I had no problems like
this at all. I was almost going to blame this on a bad sound card but
considering the testing I did, it only happens when scanning the slave HD's,
I highly doubt it's sound card related.