Failing Drive? Can't tell

simrick · #1 08-06-2007, 04:25 PM

I have a Win2k Micron system here. One day, after turning it on, it never booted, just made a few clicks. I figured the hard drive was failing. Turned it back on and it could not find the OS to boot. It would boot from the CD, but I was not able to do an OS "REPAIR". So I switched the master/slave switches on the 2 internal hard drives, reinstalled the OS on the second drive and tried to "read" from the failed drive. Well, everything is there - everything - I moved the important stuff to the new C: drive. I installed PassMark DiskCheck and Belarc Advisor to check the health of the supposed failed drive - everything checks out ok - no failure; no imminent failure. I'm at a loss. Could it be that somehow the MBR was corrupted or something? Any ideas anyone? I'm thinking I can wipe this disk, reformat and keep using it, yes?
Thanks for any insight.

Tech-Master · #2 08-06-2007, 10:59 PM

Hi,
Yes it sounds like the master boot record has gone, you could of tried to repair it, but no need now as you have swapped drives.

I would download diagnostic software from the hdd maker, seagate, maxtor etc and run their own tests rather then generic third party ones.

simrick · #3 08-07-2007, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Tech-Master

I would download diagnostic software from the hdd maker, seagate, maxtor etc and run their own tests rather then generic third party ones.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I wonder, what could have caused that? (assuming the drive isn't failing..) I've run 3 virus scans and found nothing. I'm just curious as to what the other causes could be.

Thanks!

Tech-Master · #4 08-07-2007, 02:33 PM

9 times out of 10 is normally down to a drive problem! hopefully the diagnostics software will pick something up.