Hello, I think I am losing it. I have a Maxtor drive that *may* be going out on me. I came in to see my WinXP Pro SP2 machine with a powered monitor but all black screen (It should have been on power save). System was (i think) not responding. So I reboot and then come back later to the same thing. So I go through the event viewer and see this:
Event Type: Warning Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 52 Date: 1/17/2008 Time: 2:24:02 AM User: N/A Computer: VENUS Description: The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 0e 00 03 00 01 00 5e 00 ......^. 0008: 00 00 00 00 34 00 04 80 ....4..? 0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2d 00 ......-. 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 ... So I already know that SMART isn't *always* smart but I start xcopy'ing everything nonetheless. I grab my famous PROGRAMS DISCS and start loading Partition Magic and Drive Image. I pick another drive in this same system (there are 4 physical drives - 2 on Promise 100 card) and xcopy both partition on the drive over to this new(ish) one. I have to do this because the original and possibly failing drive is a 30gb split in half with a FAT32 Win98 install on C: (First half of drive) and a NTFS WinXP Pro install on E: (Second half of the drive) AND the new one is a 20GB. Size isn't the same so Drive Image won't do a copy disk to disk for me. No worries, I think, I partition the 20GB in FAT32 the first 40% and NTFS the last 60%. I copy the data over (again). I make sure boot.ini (on first partition) and ntdetect.com and all that are there on that 98 partition and all that. They are exactly the same. So I pull the system swpa the drive and put the 20GB in the (failing?) 30gb spot and jumper them etc. I mark the 20GB drive active with 98 disk AND do a fixmbr and fixboot with XP and still the drive will only boot to 98. If I mark the NTFS/XP partition it just sits blinking cursor - no boot menu - no nothing. WTF am I missing here? Is there a program that can query SMART error messages? I would really like to know what is wrong with the drive because it's still just chugging along here. Thank god the bios allows me to boot from scsi devices. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
