My poor Hard Drive

[adams901]

is fucked , a while ago I posted about things taking forever to open, and games freezing every couple of seconds, well yesterday I decided to run a benchmark and see how the drives were doing, below are the results.

I think I have a problem with my D Drive, below are the drive specs and the results I have gained from various benchmarks.

C:/ WD Caviar Special Edition 40 GB EIDE hard drive
Benchmark Results
PCmark 2002 pro Score: 658
Cached File Write: 8.9
Uncached File Write: 13.7
Cached File Read: 32.6
Uncached File Read: 33.1
File copy 8.7

HDTach
http://hosted.barrysworld.net/adams901/c.gif

D:/ WD Caviar Special Edition 120 GB EIDE hard drive
Benchmark Results
PCmark 2002 pro Score: 344
Cached File Write: 6.5
Uncached File Write: 10.1
Cached File Read: 9.4
Uncached File Read: 17.7
File copy 6.6

HDTach
http://hosted.barrysworld.net/adams901/d.gif

I have reformatted the D Drive and am still getting the same results, do you think it's the Hard drive or could it be the IDE cable?.

Cheers
Adam

 

[Embattle]

Have you tried using the Data Lifeguard tools?

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp#windlg

 

[adams901]

I reseated the cables and it improved quite a lot, although it still isnt what I would like .

http://hosted.barrysworld.net/adams901/e.gif

seems that each time I do it it changes, the above screenshot is the best one so far.

 

[PR.]

Make sure your drive isn't running in PIO Mode. Its in device manager.

I had a similar problem and it was down to the data cable being too close to a power cable which was interfering with the data, this causes windows XP to step back the acceleration until either the corrupt data being transmitted is stopped or it runs out of steping downs.

 

[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

mine is running in PIO and i cant get it back to DMA, i've tried so much! If i boot into win98 it runs in dma fine... stupid XP.

 

[Embattle]

http://www.embattle.barrysworld.net/images/hdtach.jpg

Well this is my result using HDtach, the main problem you seem to suffer is sudden drop offs.

 

[PR.]

Originally posted by [UD] Devil
mine is running in PIO and i cant get it back to DMA, i've tried so much! If i boot into win98 it runs in dma fine... stupid XP.

Have you tried removing the IDE Controllers and letting XP redetect them? Thats worked for me