Hard Drives

[Lucy]

I have installed an additional new hard drive and divided
it into two volumes of 30mb each. Everything seems to be
OK the system is stable and I have had no data loss and
have no reason to worry apart from the fact that when I
go into disk management it says that both my new disk
volumes are healthy at risk changed from when I installed
them when they just said healthy..

I have run scandisk with fix errors etc and all is ok as
well as defragmenting the drives. I have also downloaded
the diagnostic software from the Western digital site and
run it showing no problems. The PC world advisor said it
is nothing and not to believe everything windows is
telling me.

Sorry to drag this on, but should I take action to
correct this or do as the PC world advisor said and
ignore it. After all everything seems to be working OK.

I am running Win XP pro on 550 MHZ processor and 512MB
Ram.

Thankyou so much for any help given. I really appreciate
it.

Lucy

 

[Lem]

I have installed an additional new hard drive and divided
it into two volumes of 30mb each. Everything seems to be
OK the system is stable and I have had no data loss and
have no reason to worry apart from the fact that when I
go into disk management it says that both my new disk
volumes are healthy at risk changed from when I installed
them when they just said healthy..

I have run scandisk with fix errors etc and all is ok as
well as defragmenting the drives. I have also downloaded
the diagnostic software from the Western digital site and
run it showing no problems. The PC world advisor said it
is nothing and not to believe everything windows is
telling me.

Sorry to drag this on, but should I take action to
correct this or do as the PC world advisor said and
ignore it. After all everything seems to be working OK.

I am running Win XP pro on 550 MHZ processor and 512MB
Ram.

Thankyou so much for any help given. I really appreciate
it.

Lucy

The following is from Win 2000 Server documentation
(http://tinyurl.com/w09o), but it should apply to WinXPPro as well (I'm
not at my WinXP box now, so I can't confirm)"

Healthy (At Risk)

"The volume is currently accessible, but I/O errors have been detected
on the underlying disk. If an I/O error is detected on any part of a
disk, all volumes on the disk display the Healthy (At Risk) status. A
warning icon appears on the volume. Only dynamic volumes display the
Healthy (At Risk) status.

"When the volume status is Healthy (At Risk), an underlying disk's
status is usually Online (Errors). To return the underlying disk to the
Online status, reactivate the disk (using the Reactivate Disk command).
Once the disk is returned to Online status, the volume should return "
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To "reactivate" right-click on the disk while in disk management and you
should get a menu with the "reactivate" command.