Hello Carl
Originally it was set up with 1 Linux which is now Suse 10.1, 1 XP Pro
drive,
1 Win 98SE. The XP Pro drive (a 120 GB Maxtor) developed windows problems
and was unrecoverable, so installed XP Pro on the former 98 drive which
is an
80 GB Maxtor, the current problem drive.
Connected the drive directly to the mb and it still would not boot,
after 3 tries
tried the slipstreamed XP disk and ran chkdsk /r 2 times, 2 errors fixed on
first run and none on second run. Started normally and ran windows update,
updated spybot sd and adaware se and Avast av and ran all checks with no
problems. Reconnected the Romtec Trios switch and the drive is working
fine again.
Before bypassing the switch a problem started on the 120 GB Maxtor
with XP Pro, the mouse does not move and ran chkdsk /r with no change.
Starting the drive with barts disk the mouse works fine, but starting in
windows
the mouse is frozen in the center of the screen. Tried safe mode but no
mouse.
Any Ideas? May try bypassing the switch again.
Thank You Joe Harrison
Carl Houseman wrote:
3 hard drives, Windows on all, Windows stable on 2 out of 3.
Conclusion: The 3rd (unstable) drive has data corruption or is in the
process of failing.
I would start by removing the Romtec Trios and connect the unstable drive
directly, and see whether the behavior changes.
Behavior changes: You know that the Romtec Trios or cabling to/from is part
of the problem.
Behavior remains the same: Don't re-install Romtec yet. Boot slipstream
SP2 CD to Recovery Console, run CHKDSK /R, repeatedly, until nothing is
fixed. If you have to run it more than twice, the HDD is dying.
Carl
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