HD Probs

[mookie]

right, if any of you could help with this it'd be much appreciated...
last week after my hd failed (fucking nearly cried i did) i picked up a new 80gb one (ok, so it was an IBM vancouver, which i know have a reputation, but it was cheap ). I reinstalled windows XP,
reinstalled all my drivers and such and all seemed fine, except that windows device manager was reporting both my IDE hd's as SCSI, a little weird, but it worked so i wasnt too bothered. a few reboots later and it bluescreens on boot.
the error was UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_ERROR or some such. i shit myself again and stick in an old HD that has xp on it, i did a chkdisk on the dead drive and it fixes it, i remove the old drive and it works fine. its been working ok for the last 2 days but i switched it on this morning and i got the same error.

when i get in i'll scan it and fix it and it'll be fine, but i dont wanna have to do this every few days and i was wondering if any of you had similar problems?

cheers in advance

 

[Embattle]

Specs, hard drive make, etc

 

[mookie]

yeah i know was just gonna edit but you being the forum monkey you are you got there before me

t-bird 1.3
ecs k7s5a
256mb pc2100
gf2 mx400
sblive 5.1
80GB IBM DESKSTAR 120GXP ATA100
60GB MAXTOR ATA100/5400

 

[Embattle]

The reporting of the hard drive as a SCSI device is not normal unless you use RAID controllers from High point and Promise but I'm not too sure how the SiS 735 chipset defines its Hard drive controllers as.

Download the powermax utility http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm as this will create a boot floppy enabling you to test the Hard drive for errors etc.

IBM have a utility like powermax too http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm

 

[Miles_Binck]

I had a similar problem a few months back, i used this and it fixed it first time out.

 

[mookie]

cheers miles thats a lot quicker than drive swapping .

just wondering what could be causing it, its happened more than twice, and i'm sure the ide cable is fine, i've been using it for ages. any ideas?

i'll give both drives the once-over with the utilities and see what they bring up.

*edit*

as for windows seing the drives as scsi, its only been happening since the reinstall. i'm baffled by this

 

[Embattle]

I know that the Powermax utility has a quick test which take less time but not as good as the full test. Run the quick test first then the full test to see if any errors pop up, powermax also allows you to restore the drive to its factory config.

 

[Miles_Binck]

mookie, it 'might' be a dodgy sector/cluster on the Hard disk with is making it fubar

as embattle suggests, use the PowerMax utility it is very handy and can bring seemingly dead HDD's back from the dead. If all else fails there is always the option to low level format the disk

 

[Embattle]

Worked for my Maxtor

 

[mookie]

the maxtor came up with errors which powermax fixed, the IBM was fine, but windows still insists that they're SCSI drives. and i've noticed theyre a little bit slower than usual. hmm.

 

[S-Gray]

Have you tried installing the Drivers for either HD? Ive seen it where, if you dont install the correct Drivers (Or windows does it) it can something become somethin else.

If you have the driver Disc/k for either HD, install it, and see what happens ?

 

[mookie]

everythign sorted fine now, cheers for the help

btw this sorted out the scsi/ide problem. silly windows.