hard drive problems
edit: sorta think I fixed it, ensue old post--
The drive is a Samsung HD103SJ or something, it's a TB SATA drive. Took it out of my desktop, previously 0 bad sectors and no problems at all. Switched drives with the server, handling it carefully all the while. Booted to Parted Magic and found errors running a SMART test, which I only haphazardly decided to do, didn't notice any noises or drive performance changes. It told me there was a single pending sector, and no bad sectors, all else was okay. Now I was able to boot up to the Ubuntu previously installed on the drive, meant for the desktop, but actually booted fine on the server (with a different GPU and everything even the GPU drivers still worked, well, they were both Radeon HDs but it was like a 4550 and a 5750). Anyway Disk Utility says it fails to read from the drive though I am actually using it right now. It still says 1 pending bad sector, all else appears alright. I was scared shitless for a second because I've got a load of stuff on this drive I need to get off...
The drive is a Samsung HD103SJ or something, it's a TB SATA drive. Took it out of my desktop, previously 0 bad sectors and no problems at all. Switched drives with the server, handling it carefully all the while. Booted to Parted Magic and found errors running a SMART test, which I only haphazardly decided to do, didn't notice any noises or drive performance changes. It told me there was a single pending sector, and no bad sectors, all else was okay. Now I was able to boot up to the Ubuntu previously installed on the drive, meant for the desktop, but actually booted fine on the server (with a different GPU and everything even the GPU drivers still worked, well, they were both Radeon HDs but it was like a 4550 and a 5750). Anyway Disk Utility says it fails to read from the drive though I am actually using it right now. It still says 1 pending bad sector, all else appears alright. I was scared shitless for a second because I've got a load of stuff on this drive I need to get off...
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(It's a shame hard drive prices are so high nowadays. I actually bought my drive at Best Buy because it was cheaper than at Newegg.
One thing is for sure, make sure that you have an up to date backup. And if the drive is still giving errors, do yourself a favor and get a new drive.
Personally, I've never had much luck with Samsung drives. But really, any drive can go bad.
Seriously? That's sad, isn't it?
I recently upgraded my laptop hard drive. I paid $100 something for it and now it's almost $300 on newegg.
Anyway I'm doing a semi-emergency backup now. The problem is this was my largest drive by FAR, so I accordingly backed up other computers *to it*. THis is why it was to be put into the server. Once the backup finishes I'll screw with it more. I've had it for a year and a half, sure as hell don't want to pay for a new drive, second-worst case will RMA.
Yup. It's a Seagate 1TB drive. It was $70 at Best Buy, it's $110 on Newegg now.
Anyway, I have tried first the SMART reader on Parted Magic, not sure what it was, and then the Ubuntu one afterward. Both indicated a critical read error, and still after about 20 minutes the single frickin pending sector. My guess is it's this one sector causing read errors but I'll troubleshoot it further once I dump 2.5 years' worth of server backup (non-recursive backup either, it exists only on this drive, basically in-between data) onto my external drive which is like 120GB.
Pretty sure the price went up. :(
Good lord that will take a while. o.0
http://taldar.in/
/filez is my NAS
Note: it will generally take a while to scan the entire hard drive (the bigger the size, the longer it takes to scan the hard drive under Stages 4 & 5.)
My laptop, dad's laptop, and my old desktop's hard drives had errors; got fixed, but my old desktop had a crapload of errors (under the Surface Scan with ScanDisk. File System, Directory, Free Space, and whatever else also had errors.)
Another solution is to try to backup or copy the files onto the external Hard Drive; delete and reformat the problematic hard drive. I have a TB Hard Drive, a Seagate Barracuta SATA Hard Drive, had it for almost 3 years, and so far, no problems. I got it at Microcenter (Computer Superstore) for $80 back in October of 2009.
I put it back in the desktop and the second I powered it up it started grinding like a bitch, so I pulled the power lol.
I got my data off, save the OS files, but screw the OS, at least I got my server backups and netshare stuff off. Still sucks a lot though. Now my server still doesn't have a hard drive and my nice desktop's screwed as well. I'm scared to try to spinup the drive again, for fear of an explosion or equivalent disaster.
So I booted to an UBCD, and ran DBAN from there. It's been going for a *long* time, but the progress has been steady and it's gone through 3 passes of random data and is now on the final zeroing step and there have been no errors so far. Maybe I could've saved my drive. (The data's off it by now, and it's since been destroyed (on the drive itself), but I would rather not have to RMA if I don't have to, as that would take a while and I'm too lazy to find a box and tape.)
Though actually, crap, i wonder if I even can - the pending sectors were "erased" from the SMART tables, and the drive appears fine from there, only "evidence" left is two failed READ tests on the log, one of which may have gotten shoved off the last5 list because of the latest test... hm...