Possible HDD Problem?

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Lately my computer has been temporarily freezing. That is my mouse doesn't respond or keyboard doesn't respond and sometimes I get temporarily disconnected from wireless router. Today, I noticed explorer doesn't find my F drive which is my third HDD. I restart and the BIOS doesn't see it either. I shutdown and disconnect/reconnected all the HDD cables. BIOS and explorer now see the F drive. Then after a few minutes the freezing starts again and the F drive disappears. I also hear some kind of clicking sound?

Is this a hardware problem? When I get home I'm going to diconnect that HDD and see if the freezing stops. The F drive is just a storage drive with no OS. I can also boot into another OS partition. All three HDDs are SATA Western Digitals.
 
check the Windows event logs.
I believe it's the System logs; if there is an issue with the drive, there's a good possibility it will be listed in the System log with an event of "disk"

but yeah, it does sound like a dying hdd.
 
I haven't had any freezing since got home. I installed that application. My primary OS drive with C and D partition has health status as caution. The attribute "reallocated sectors count" is marked yellow/caution. Temperature is 29C. E drive is good. F drive isn't detected.

I restarted computer and BIOS didn't detect it. I restarted a couple more times and it got detected. Software is saying F drive is 22C with yellow/caution for "current pending sector count". I need to reformat my HDD and reinstall the OS but I'm not going to until the school semester is over. It's been a really long time a few years since I've done that.

Here are the system error records of the event logs.
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Caution generally means the drive is so bad that it is time to RMA it otherwise there is a high risk of data loss.
 
drescherjm said:
Caution generally means the drive is so bad that it is time to RMA it otherwise there is a high risk of data loss.
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The reallocated sectors count is 200 for all my HDDs. It only shows yellow on my main drive which is different than the other two. I'm not going to worry about it. I think that's fine.

Current pending sector count is also 200 for all my HDDs. So what the heck?

The power on time is around 41,000 hours. Power on count is about 1,000. The power on count is high from when I lived in some shitty old house where the circuit breaker kept tripping.
 
It's fine as long as the number does not grow weekly.

200? Are you looking at the raw hexadecimal value?
 
The reallocated sectors count for main drive is 199 with hex value of 0000 0000 0000 000C. The others are 200 with hex values of 0000 0000 0000 0000.

Current pending sector count for F drive is 0000 0000 0000 000D. Others are 0000 0000 0000 0000. All three drives are 200.
 
OK, this probably better to show. The F drive seemed to have gotten warmer last time I mentioned the temperature. I guess when it just got detected it started warming up.

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The C: drive has 12 (0000000C) reallocated sectors. These are sectors that the drive found bad at some point but was able to recover all data on them and remap them to good sectors that it contains as spares. I would not worry much about that. There were only 2 events in the drives lifetime that sectors needed to be remapped.

The F: drive has current pending sectors. This means that there are 13 (0000000D) bad sectors that at the time the drive determined they were corrupt it could not read them enough to remap them with good sectors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

This is not totally fatal but it could mean that a small portion of your data is corrupt.
 
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I have this on F drive now. I haven't had any freezing at all today. Uncorrectable sector count is now caution with 0000 000B or decimal equivalent of 11.

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I had 2 of those WD2500KS drives die on me a couple of years ago, both at the same time, replaced by 2 x WD3200AAKS and never looked back.
 
I have this on F drive now. I haven't had any freezing at all today. Uncorrectable sector count is now caution with 0000 000B or decimal equivalent of 11.
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That is correct. The pending went down by 2 since 2 out of the 13 pending sectors were correctable.

It's interesting that the reallocation event count is still zero.
 
OldMX said:
I had 2 of those WD2500KS drives die on me a couple of years ago, both at the same time, replaced by 2 x WD3200AAKS and never looked back.
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Although some drives and batches may be less reliable than others remember that any drive from any manufacturer can fail at any time regardless of how old it is or how much you use it. As a result if you have important data make sure you have a backup and I mean backup since RAID is not considered a proper backup.
 
I'm going to order a 2TB drive. I have little space left on these drives. They're all about 75% full.
 
that's a lot of errors with a category of "disk"
I had that issue on my old XP box; but it was due to a bad port on an add-in IDE controller. Same thing when the motherboard's on-board RAID decided to die and corrupt a shit ton of data on the 2 drives that were connected (after I RMA'ed them because I thought it was a drive issue)
 
The event log only shows disk errors from the 2nd of November to the 4th. There hasn't been any disk errors today. I'm guessing it corresponds with the freezing? I ran chkdsk yesterday but I don't recall it saying it fixed anything.
 
It also says ftdisk. Are you using raid on any of your drives? I was originally concerned with nvgts thinking that was a nvidia video component but I see that this is used with the storage as well.
 
I did use RAID 0 in the past but not recently so no. I had Windows use chkdsk for my OS drive the next time the computer started and now it won't boot. I've done this before and realized it after I done it. I'm in the process of fixing it by command prompt. By command prompt, I fixed some errors.
 
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