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I came here instead since i know you guys at Hard knows much more about data storage than any other swedish forum, so perhaps hopefully someone could give me some answers what is happening with my harddrive.
I will try to keep it as short as i can.
August 2009 i bought a Western Digital GP 1.5TB harddrive (WD15EADS-00P8B0), everything worked good for some weeks, then the problems started.
For example, when watching a movie from the drive, the video stops randomly times but the audio continues, then some seconds later the video fast fowards to return to the right point where the audio is.
Same thing when i example played a .flac file, the music plays for some seconds, then music stops, winamp freezes and some seconds later music starts again for some seconds, and then same thing happends again and again.
I had problems when i was about to transfer all the (1.3TB) data from the drive to other drives, transfer kept stopping and freezing. But after some days i have now managed to save all the stuff on the drive.
I called WDC tech-support and got the standard phrase for stuff like this "you have to run our diagnostic tools" yadda yadda yadda, i did it and DLG reports the drive as OK with no errors found.
Operatingsystem i am running is Win XP SP3 x86 and filesystem is NTFS.
I am currently writing zeros to the whole drive and then testing to create a new NTFS partition since a friend of mine talked it could be something faulty with the NTFS table/partition itself (since NTFS is verry sensitive).
Another friend claimed that this problem is common with drives over 1TB, wich sounded strange to me.
What should i do, what can i do, i cant RMA a drive that WD's Diagnostic software reports as OK but imo there is something realy wrong with it.
I have tried all the standard troubleshooting stuff, changing sata-cable, changing sata-port etc, i even moved the drive from the motherboard controller to my 3ware raid card and same problem occur.
Best Regards FSS
I came here instead since i know you guys at Hard knows much more about data storage than any other swedish forum, so perhaps hopefully someone could give me some answers what is happening with my harddrive.
I will try to keep it as short as i can.
August 2009 i bought a Western Digital GP 1.5TB harddrive (WD15EADS-00P8B0), everything worked good for some weeks, then the problems started.
For example, when watching a movie from the drive, the video stops randomly times but the audio continues, then some seconds later the video fast fowards to return to the right point where the audio is.
Same thing when i example played a .flac file, the music plays for some seconds, then music stops, winamp freezes and some seconds later music starts again for some seconds, and then same thing happends again and again.
I had problems when i was about to transfer all the (1.3TB) data from the drive to other drives, transfer kept stopping and freezing. But after some days i have now managed to save all the stuff on the drive.
I called WDC tech-support and got the standard phrase for stuff like this "you have to run our diagnostic tools" yadda yadda yadda, i did it and DLG reports the drive as OK with no errors found.
Operatingsystem i am running is Win XP SP3 x86 and filesystem is NTFS.
I am currently writing zeros to the whole drive and then testing to create a new NTFS partition since a friend of mine talked it could be something faulty with the NTFS table/partition itself (since NTFS is verry sensitive).
Another friend claimed that this problem is common with drives over 1TB, wich sounded strange to me.
What should i do, what can i do, i cant RMA a drive that WD's Diagnostic software reports as OK but imo there is something realy wrong with it.
I have tried all the standard troubleshooting stuff, changing sata-cable, changing sata-port etc, i even moved the drive from the motherboard controller to my 3ware raid card and same problem occur.
Best Regards FSS
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