hard drive keeps failing

[samzen06]

hi there
I have a two computers and the other machine which I generally use for
visualisations and rendering and artistic things as well as gaming and
watching dvds on. I have a 40gb drive that has windows on it and a
second drive which is 80gb but it fails sometimes when I boot up saying
"delayed write fail F:\$MFt". Does this mean that soon the drive won't
boot at all ?
Often when this happens I reboot in safe mode and then reboot to normal
mode and it works again. But sometimes I have had to reboot it about
6-8 times before it would start working.

Previously to it been the second hard drive, it was originally my
primary drive but it became corrupted and wouldn't boot windows so i
got a new drive and used as a secondary drive, do you think this action
might have any relevance to what I am experiencing now ?

any advice would be most appreaciated
thanks
sam

 

[Rod Speed]

hi there
I have a two computers and the other machine which I generally use for
visualisations and rendering and artistic things as well as gaming and
watching dvds on. I have a 40gb drive that has windows on it and a
second drive which is 80gb but it fails sometimes when I boot up
saying "delayed write fail F:\$MFt". Does this mean that soon the
drive won't boot at all ?
Often when this happens I reboot in safe mode and then reboot to
normal mode and it works again. But sometimes I have had to reboot it
about 6-8 times before it would start working.

Previously to it been the second hard drive, it was originally my
primary drive but it became corrupted and wouldn't boot windows so i
got a new drive and used as a secondary drive, do you think this
action might have any relevance to what I am experiencing now ?

Yes, its very likely the drive has a fault.

Post the Everest SMART data for the drive.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

 

[Paul]

hi there
I have a two computers and the other machine which I generally use for
visualisations and rendering and artistic things as well as gaming and
watching dvds on. I have a 40gb drive that has windows on it and a
second drive which is 80gb but it fails sometimes when I boot up saying
"delayed write fail F:\$MFt". Does this mean that soon the drive won't
boot at all ?
Often when this happens I reboot in safe mode and then reboot to normal
mode and it works again. But sometimes I have had to reboot it about
6-8 times before it would start working.

Previously to it been the second hard drive, it was originally my
primary drive but it became corrupted and wouldn't boot windows so i
got a new drive and used as a secondary drive, do you think this action
might have any relevance to what I am experiencing now ?

any advice would be most appreaciated
thanks
sam

Go to the disk drive manufacturer's web site and download
their diagnostic program. Boot with the diagnostic and
run it on the drive. That will give you a quick idea of
whether it is bad or not.

Paul