Year-old SeaGate SATA ST3750640AS drive crashes

[RF]

This SATA drive is installed with an Intel D845GEBV2 board and Win2K SP4.

While copying some files to a partition on this drive a few days ago the
computer crashed and I had to reboot.

The 750GB drive is divided into 3 partitions and the 250GB one I was
copying to now looks very dead. It had about 5 GB of data there already
and can't be accessed as far as I can see. I made a scan using Win2K and
it stopped part way through the scan muttering corruption.


I thought at first it might be an Lba issue and I checked the registry
but it was already setup for the first partition when it was being loaded.

The other 2 partitions seem ok but I have not tested them yet.

Any suggestions, short of a sledge hammer job?

TIA

 

[Pen]

This SATA drive is installed with an Intel D845GEBV2 board and Win2K SP4.

While copying some files to a partition on this drive a few days ago the
computer crashed and I had to reboot.

The 750GB drive is divided into 3 partitions and the 250GB one I was
copying to now looks very dead. It had about 5 GB of data there already
and can't be accessed as far as I can see. I made a scan using Win2K and
it stopped part way through the scan muttering corruption.


I thought at first it might be an Lba issue and I checked the registry
but it was already setup for the first partition when it was being loaded.

The other 2 partitions seem ok but I have not tested them yet.

Any suggestions, short of a sledge hammer job?

TIA

Get spinrite if the data is important.
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
If the data is recoverable it will do it. Saved me more than once.

 

[RF]

Since you were copying data I assume you have not lost any data...
so now is a good time to back everything up to another drive.

Once that is done and you've confirmed all your backed-up data are good.


Go the the website of the HD mfg and get their diagnostic utility and
check to see if the drive is defective.

If so, check the warranty and RMA it if still covered

Thanks Philo,

The data on the partition I was adding to is the original. My intention
was to add some more data and then mirror the completed partition to get
the backup.

 

[RF]

Thanks Philo,

The data on the partition I was adding to is the original. My intention
was to add some more data and then mirror the completed partition to get
the backup.

An odd thing happened in the last day or so. The drive now shows a
Recycler but nothing else. Previously it did not open at all when I
tried. The properties say that there are over 20GB of files. Now the
question is how to find invisible files ;-)
I just did a search with the Win2K engine and it brought 0 in the same
number of seconds.