- Jan 17, 2010
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I think one of my HD's is failing. Suddenly for about 3 days I'm getting a BSOD. Today I decided to make sure everything was backed up and I decided to create an image of my boot drive. So...I decided to completely empty out one of my drives to use it for the image file.
Before I continue here's my setup:
Win7 Ultimate
X58 EVGA MOBO i7 920
3 x 1TB HD's & one 500GB HD the 3 TB drives are WD Black drives (not suitable for RAID)
6 GB ram
DVD drives x2
I cleared one of the 1TB drives and decided to format it. I also had a small partition on that drive from an earlier Ubuntu installation and decided to delete the volume altogether and start fresh. (I have Ubuntu on a small partition on the C: Drive)
Anyway, after deleting and then recreating a new volume I now cannot seem to make it active.
I have gone through all the steps to do it and when using Windows administrative tools it tells me that it is active and I do see it in my "My Computer" window but if I reboot the drive disappears. I have tried using the WD Acronis True Image app that comes with the drives and it goes through the process of "Adding" the drive without any errors, but again, once I reboot the drive is gone.
I may be mistaken but I think a couple of time I got the BSOD I was doing something with that drive, of course I can't say what was happening the first couple of times it happened as I had a ton of stuff open on my desktop.
I believe it's that drive causing these problems. Any opinions one way or the other? And is it a pretty safe bet that if I can't assign a drive letter and it keeps disappearing then it is in fact going bad?
Before I continue here's my setup:
Win7 Ultimate
X58 EVGA MOBO i7 920
3 x 1TB HD's & one 500GB HD the 3 TB drives are WD Black drives (not suitable for RAID)
6 GB ram
DVD drives x2
I cleared one of the 1TB drives and decided to format it. I also had a small partition on that drive from an earlier Ubuntu installation and decided to delete the volume altogether and start fresh. (I have Ubuntu on a small partition on the C: Drive)
Anyway, after deleting and then recreating a new volume I now cannot seem to make it active.
I have gone through all the steps to do it and when using Windows administrative tools it tells me that it is active and I do see it in my "My Computer" window but if I reboot the drive disappears. I have tried using the WD Acronis True Image app that comes with the drives and it goes through the process of "Adding" the drive without any errors, but again, once I reboot the drive is gone.
I may be mistaken but I think a couple of time I got the BSOD I was doing something with that drive, of course I can't say what was happening the first couple of times it happened as I had a ton of stuff open on my desktop.
I believe it's that drive causing these problems. Any opinions one way or the other? And is it a pretty safe bet that if I can't assign a drive letter and it keeps disappearing then it is in fact going bad?
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