Hard Drive Issues - Please Help!

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JamesTown

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Ok, I have two SeaGate Baracuda 7200.11 HDDs. I began to have problems some time back with Windows failing to make it past the loading screen without freezing. In the past, I could rearrange the SATA cords and then it would work. More recently it began to not even make it past the black startup screen and it cannot find my drives. I can get past the black startup screen if I rearrange my SATA cords but it will still freeze at the Windows loading screen. I've run SeaTools and it will fail saying there are damaged sectors that cannot be repaired, but if I rearrange the SATA cords it will pass. I've updated my firmware, but still am having the issues. I'm beginning to suspect that maybe it's something more than my HDDs because they both started to do this at the same time, and when i rearrange the SATA cords, then it will sometimes work fine. Could this possibly be an issue with my motherboard? Any suggestions please! I cannot even use my computer now!

Thanks

James
 
JamesTown said:
Ok, I have two SeaGate Baracuda 7200.11 HDDs. I began to have problems some time back with Windows failing to make it past the loading screen without freezing. In the past, I could rearrange the SATA cords and then it would work. More recently it began to not even make it past the black startup screen and it cannot find my drives. I can get past the black startup screen if I rearrange my SATA cords but it will still freeze at the Windows loading screen. I've run SeaTools and it will fail saying there are damaged sectors that cannot be repaired, but if I rearrange the SATA cords it will pass. I've updated my firmware, but still am having the issues. I'm beginning to suspect that maybe it's something more than my HDDs because they both started to do this at the same time, and when i rearrange the SATA cords, then it will sometimes work fine. Could this possibly be an issue with my motherboard? Any suggestions please! I cannot even use my computer now!

Thanks

James
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Run the primary hard drive by itself and see what happens.
Is your Bios set up correctly for the two hard drives?
 
Thanks for the reply. I assume it's set up correctly for two because I ran two for a couple years before it started to give me problems. Either way, I've tried running both drives separately with the other one unplugged many times, with the same results.
 
JamesTown said:
Thanks for the reply. I assume it's set up correctly for two because I ran two for a couple years before it started to give me problems. Either way, I've tried running both drives separately with the other one unplugged many times, with the same results.
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Still check your settings in bios and while at it check the motherboard battery just in case it is low which could be causing your problems.
 
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