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[Doomulation]

Just one question...
as I have two harddrives. One of them is a little older and, I think, seems to behave a little bad. It takes 100% cpu power to write to that hd as well as that it writes *SLOW*. Whileas the other harddrive has no such problems. Almost no cpu power and 40 mb/s (megabyte).

So...I was thinking, maybe this harddrive is approaching the end of its lifespan? I should backup data then.

 

[sytaylor]

yeah back it up and replace it when hard drives get old they start slowing EVERYTHING down

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Looks like it means the hard disk drive is stuck in PIO mode.
Make sure you are able to enable UDMA.

 

[Doomulation]

Just to point out also, this hard disk has worked ok before, and I don't really remember changing any settings in the bios but perhaps restoring default values. But I'll check this and back stuff up if it seems it's dying.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Does Windows display any bad block errors and/or controller errors in the event log?

Also, even if it does, maybe you have a faulty IDE interface or a chipset problem. nForce chipsets are known to sometimes give people hard disk drive data corruption and cause bad block errors and/or controller errors under Windows XP and Windows 2000.

 

[Doomulation]

I'll check when I get back home, then.

 

[FloW3184]

i have had the same problem with mine! I think you are booting from the new HD. -I have forgotten to search for the hd in the bios!
WinXP is able to use Hdds even if they are not listet in bios! but it uses 100% CPU power to read or write! and it was slow.