Slow hard disk - diagnosis help - direction needed

#1 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 05:06 AM

Greetings,

After multiple crashes, my 2nd hard drive is slow which is on 2nd IDE
channel as master(tried slave also). Here are the symptoms

When this drive is connected, booting is slow and every thing is taking
ages to respond. When taken off line, things are smooth with 1st
bootable drive.

2nd hard drive is recognized by BIOS but not by Windows XP SP2

Suggest me how to approach for this scenario. I am ready to fix the
2nd drive's issues if it needs formatting.

thanks in advance
pingmepal

#2 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 05:43 AM

pingmepal@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> After multiple crashes, my 2nd hard drive is slow which is on 2nd IDE
> channel as master(tried slave also). Here are the symptoms
>
> When this drive is connected, booting is slow and every thing is taking
> ages to respond. When taken off line, things are smooth with 1st
> bootable drive.
>
> 2nd hard drive is recognized by BIOS but not by Windows XP SP2
>
> Suggest me how to approach for this scenario. I am ready to fix the
> 2nd drive's issues if it needs formatting.

Backup any data on that drive immediately. Do a full format of that
drive. If it continues to be slow, expect it to completely fail.

#3 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 07:01 AM

Thanks for the quick resonse. However when It is not visible for OS, I
can't backup. :-)

Grinder wrote:
> pingmepal@gmail.com wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > After multiple crashes, my 2nd hard drive is slow which is on 2nd IDE
> > channel as master(tried slave also). Here are the symptoms
> >
> > When this drive is connected, booting is slow and every thing is taking
> > ages to respond. When taken off line, things are smooth with 1st
> > bootable drive.
> >
> > 2nd hard drive is recognized by BIOS but not by Windows XP SP2
> >
> > Suggest me how to approach for this scenario. I am ready to fix the
> > 2nd drive's issues if it needs formatting.
>
> Backup any data on that drive immediately. Do a full format of that
> drive. If it continues to be slow, expect it to completely fail.

#4 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 07:06 AM

pingmepal@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> After multiple crashes, my 2nd hard drive is slow which is on 2nd IDE
>>> channel as master(tried slave also). Here are the symptoms
>>>
>>> When this drive is connected, booting is slow and every thing is taking
>>> ages to respond. When taken off line, things are smooth with 1st
>>> bootable drive.
>>>
>>> 2nd hard drive is recognized by BIOS but not by Windows XP SP2
>>>
>>> Suggest me how to approach for this scenario. I am ready to fix the
>>> 2nd drive's issues if it needs formatting.

Grinder wrote:
>> Backup any data on that drive immediately. Do a full format of that
>> drive. If it continues to be slow, expect it to completely fail.

Pingmepal wrote:
> Thanks for the quick resonse. However when It is not visible
> for OS, I can't backup. :-)

You might be able to copy the whole thing with something like Partition
Magic, but I suspect you've already lost your data.

#5 (**permalink**) 11-10-2006, 05:34 PM

Pingmepal wrote:
> Thanks for the quick resonse. However when It is not visible for OS, I
> can't backup. :-)

Have you tried booting in a linux live? There are various rescue linux
live cds.

NT

> Grinder wrote:
> > pingmepal@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > After multiple crashes, my 2nd hard drive is slow which is on 2nd IDE
> > > channel as master(tried slave also). Here are the symptoms