K
Kenny
I have 2 internal IDE HDD's and an external IcyBox USB2 self powered
enclosure with a Maxtor 160GB 7200RPM HDD in it. The external HDD is
divided into 4x40GB partitions.
Running CHECKDSK on the internal drives is no problem but when I try it on a
partition on the external one it goes through Phase1, Phase 2, sometimes
reaches Phase 3 then hangs and if left PC switches off. Second time it hung
looked at Performance tab in Task Manager and CPU was at 100% and I could
hear CPU fan revving up, obviously CPU was overheating and shutting down.
Looking in Event Viewer there are a large number of disk errors. Properties
says:
"The device,\Device\Harddisk2\D, has a bad block".
Clicking on the MS link tells me:
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 7
Source: Disk
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read.
The data might be missing or corrupted.
User Action
If this event is logged regularly, replace the hard disk drive.
Question is is it the disk itself failing or the electronics on the IcyBox
enclosure, the data on the disk is accessible and readable?
Are there any known problems with this type of external HDD?
The problem only came to light when I tried to merge partitions on external
HDD using Partition Magic and it couldn't be done because of errors..
enclosure with a Maxtor 160GB 7200RPM HDD in it. The external HDD is
divided into 4x40GB partitions.
Running CHECKDSK on the internal drives is no problem but when I try it on a
partition on the external one it goes through Phase1, Phase 2, sometimes
reaches Phase 3 then hangs and if left PC switches off. Second time it hung
looked at Performance tab in Task Manager and CPU was at 100% and I could
hear CPU fan revving up, obviously CPU was overheating and shutting down.
Looking in Event Viewer there are a large number of disk errors. Properties
says:
"The device,\Device\Harddisk2\D, has a bad block".
Clicking on the MS link tells me:
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 7
Source: Disk
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read.
The data might be missing or corrupted.
User Action
If this event is logged regularly, replace the hard disk drive.
Question is is it the disk itself failing or the electronics on the IcyBox
enclosure, the data on the disk is accessible and readable?
Are there any known problems with this type of external HDD?
The problem only came to light when I tried to merge partitions on external
HDD using Partition Magic and it couldn't be done because of errors..