Intense HDD access causes BSOD

draexo

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Here is the situation.

My power supply died. Before it died, it caused a bunch of BSODs.

My setup is this: 2 hard drives.

Primary Drive is C: and boots Windows 7 64bit
2ndary Drive is D & E. It used to also boot Ubuntu OS, though that seems trashed now.
This was why I had two partitions on the drive.

After replacing the PSU with a new one, I was having "issues", I believe due to the BSODs from the bad PSU. I decided to do a fresh install of Windows. I copied all my important files over to D: I formated C: and installed Windows fresh. That was about a month ago. I run the default BIOS settings. No overclocking.

Now, as I have more time, I have been copying files from D: to C: I am talking about 350 GB of files... home movies, pictures, random movies and programs and documents.

I seem to be able to access D: fine. I can also access individual files fine. The problem comes in when I try to bulk copy the files to C:. I get a BSOD of 0x00000124, It seems any type of more "intense" disk activity on drive D causes it to crash. This drive is about 3 years old and was the main boot drive for about 18 months. I also tried an alternative Windows Explorer that does not use Windows's files and it works better, but still gives BSODs.

I do not believe this to be a heat issue as the computer can stay online for days without incident until "intense" activity on drive D: This "intense" activity is simply copying files from D: to C: I can surf, play a few different MMORPHs without incident. Just copy some files and WHAM.


Also, the system no longer shuts down. It locks on the "shutting down screen"

Here is a snippet of HWMonitor. Ignore the AUXTIN temp as that is false. I also tested +12v with a multimeter and it is 12.1 volts. The software that came with the board shows it as 12.1 volts also, so not sure why HWMonitor shows it so low.


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Here is a camera grab of the BSOD itself.



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Did you check the connections between HDD and MB ? are they firmly seated ?

Check your drive with : http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Try to check your RAM : http://www.memtest.org/

Try to disable antivirus software while copying files. And try to copy small chunk of files at a time.

You can use Tera Copy to do the job. Or can make ISO files with http://www.filehippo.com/download_imgburn/ then copy it.
 
Solution

draexo

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I tried running CHKDSK /R and eventually it locked up at this:


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The smart test and DST (drive short test) report OK. When I attempt to scan for bad sectors using Western Digitals software (its a Western Digital HDD) it eventually freezes the entire computer.

I would reformat the drive, however it contains all my data which is taking some time to copy due to the BSODS.

I suspect something happened when I reclaimed the space the Ubuntu partition used.


 

draexo

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All good ideas. I am going to check all the cables. I think the root of the problem is the Ubuntu partition I deleted. I think I need to just start the drive over. I just need to get my data off first!

 

draexo

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Fixed it! I was running CHKDSK /R on C: I needed to run this on D: Once I did, it fixed all sorts of errors and now I can copy, move, delete to and from drive D: with no issues! Solved!

Now... how do I mark this as solved?