Western Digital Hard Drive died last night!!

[iLuminatae]

I wake up this morning and noticed something odd with my pc. I go to check my computer and a hard drive is missing. Weird I say so I go into event manager and have a look.



So is there a way I can check to see if this drive is pooched?

This is my one year old WD 180 gig Special Edition drive!! and had all my data on it.

Ok this is goofy - I turn off my pooter and unplug the ide cable, reboot - had to go into bios and reconfig my boot up sequence, seems my original boot up sequence got changed, everything boots up nice, windows xp loads properly all systems go...

I turn off the pooter, insert the WD data lifeguard utility diskette, plug the ide cable back into the hard drive, turn on pc, lifeguard starts, I test the 180 gig hard drive and it returns with no errors, I restart the pc and everything boots up properly and all my data is intact, its like nothing happened...

The drive is not making any weird noises it seems to be running as good as the day I bought it.

[Lord Vetinari]

I'd check all your cabling first. WD should have a drive test utility or suite of utilities to test the drive on their homesite.

[iLuminatae]

Originally posted by Lord Vetinari
I'd check all your cabling first. WD should have a drive test utility or suite of utilities to test the drive on their homesite.

You responded as I was typing my edit Weird shiat happened overnight, must be those damn cable gnomes or something

[YoYoDyne]

Whats the story with Error 57?

[iLuminatae]

Originally posted by YoYoDyne
Whats the story with Error 57?

Here is the info from event 57.

"The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."