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- Location
- Perth, Western Australia
I have 13 internal hard disc drives in my desktop. Six 4Tb ones and seven 3Tb. I also have 2 external HDDs but I know it isn't one of THEM
One of the 3Tb HDDs has failed. It showed up as "Healthy (At Risk)" in Disk Management after, strangely, I couldn't copy a file off the disc. I could play the file (it was a movie) but couldn't copy it.
It would copy to 69% and stop and then come up that it couldn't be read. I tried MANY times
Googled this and tried a few things like "Re-Activating", reformating (Quick), putting it "offline" and "online". I also tried to change it's letter. To no effect.
Finally it has now come up as "failed" in DM. I will try a "full" reformat tomorrow (Saturday) as that will take 7(?) or 8(?) hours.
Anything else I can try in the meantime?
Should the eventual solution be to replace/remove it, how do I determine which physical drive it is? I have LOTS of SATA ports on my motherboard and an 8 port SATA PCIe card.
My MB has 6 Intel SATA ports and 4 Asmedia SATA ports plus the 8 port SATA card. How do I work out which (of the 7 drives 3Tb) drives has failed and it's physical position in the scheme of things
There must be a better way than switching off, disconnecting one drive at a time and switching on until the correct drive is found?
TIA
PS I tried to Delete the Volume and now the status has changed to "Invalid"
One of the 3Tb HDDs has failed. It showed up as "Healthy (At Risk)" in Disk Management after, strangely, I couldn't copy a file off the disc. I could play the file (it was a movie) but couldn't copy it.
It would copy to 69% and stop and then come up that it couldn't be read. I tried MANY times
Googled this and tried a few things like "Re-Activating", reformating (Quick), putting it "offline" and "online". I also tried to change it's letter. To no effect.
Finally it has now come up as "failed" in DM. I will try a "full" reformat tomorrow (Saturday) as that will take 7(?) or 8(?) hours.
Anything else I can try in the meantime?
Should the eventual solution be to replace/remove it, how do I determine which physical drive it is? I have LOTS of SATA ports on my motherboard and an 8 port SATA PCIe card.
My MB has 6 Intel SATA ports and 4 Asmedia SATA ports plus the 8 port SATA card. How do I work out which (of the 7 drives 3Tb) drives has failed and it's physical position in the scheme of things
There must be a better way than switching off, disconnecting one drive at a time and switching on until the correct drive is found?
TIA
PS I tried to Delete the Volume and now the status has changed to "Invalid"
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- 7 Pro & 8.1 Pro & 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self Built & self built
- CPU
- i7 870 & i7 4771 & i7 HP Laptop
- Motherboard
- GA-P55A-UD7 & Asus Z87 Deluxe/Dual
- Memory
- 8Gb & 16Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- HD5770 & None
- Sound Card
- inbuilt & inbuilt
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 32' LED TV
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- About 40Tb
- PSU
- Antec TP-750C & Ditto
- Case
- Antec DF-85 & Antec Nineteen Hundred
- Cooling
- 7 fans & 6 fans
- Keyboard
- Logitech MX5500 Combo
- Mouse
- Logitech MX5500 Combo
- Internet Speed
- Naked DSL
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- AVG