Hard Disk Monitoring

I have sent the report. Supplementary :- 1. HWINFO includes this information for each of the Disks [Transfer Modes] Sectors Per Interrupt: Total: 16, Active: 0 Max. PIO Transfer Mode: 4 Multiword DMA Mode: Total: 2, Active: - Singleword DMA Mode: Total: -, Active: - Ultra-DMA Mode: Total: 6 (ATA-133...

Thanks, but I went to bed before that reply so I left the P.C whirring through the night. The write test found no defects but the speed was diabolical The READ test shown previously had a speed of 145 MB/s at the start end of the Disk, and fell down to only 70 MB/s at the other end. I see absolutely...

The results is automatically saved and displayed on the Information page. See S.M.A.R.T. details section, which contains the last short / extended self test status, when it's started, how long it take and what was the result of the test. Many thanks, I see it now. I am now 16 hours into "Reini...

Many thanks. It has passed these tests so far 1) Disk -> Short self test 2) Disk -> Extended self test 3) Disk -> Surface test -> Read test I will now Reinitialize the Disk surface. I am glad that I did not partition and format before testing. Please note a BUG or inconvenience with the Surface test...

I have started tests on my new Disk before trusting it with data - all its space is Unallocated - no partitions Short Self-Test passed Random Seek Test passed Surface Test passed Extended Self-Test is 30% complete after one hour. Am I wasting my time ? Should I have initialized as MBR and allocated ...

Many thanks My Toshiba drive commences with F:\ = 1000 MB and alignment is reported as 1 MB, then 829.56 GB Unallocated, then J:\ = 100 GB and alignment is reported as 2 MB, then K:\ = 999 MB and alignment is reported as 4 MB It looks golden to me. Questions :- 1. Do I need "The hotfix from Mic...

HDSentinal Pro 4.40, and also 4.30, agree that my brand new Toshiba 1 TB USB3 connected HDD uses Advanced Disk Format. I attach your Disk Report. fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo says it does NOT use Advanced Disk Format. This article tells me that "The hotfix from Microsoft KB982018 may be required.&quo...

Many thanks.
Now that I understand I am happy that everything is fine.

Regards
Alan

Does anything seem to be wrong with my system ? Windows does boot much faster since an SSD was added and C:\ was installed on the SSD instead of the HDD but Disk Performance shows the SSD as being slower than the HDD. HDS Disk Performance shows :- OCZ SSD 55.9GB :- Transfer Rate Information Average ...

Thanks for trying.

The BIOS was up to date 6 months ago - I will look again.

If I make any further progress I will update this topic - otherwise I will let it rest.

Regards
Alan

It takes 16 Seconds from switching on power before the BIOS starts announcing its actions, and a further 7 seconds before I am offered the choice of a normal Windows Start-up; Windows diagnostics such as a memory test; Macrium Reflect set of recovery choices. Those times are not affected by "Pl...

Thanks I will try setting YES to "Plug and Play OS installed". and if that fails I will try RW CD and RW DVD. If I can get the same Disk numbers (0, 1, and 2) allocated regardless of whether I boot up from cold or a hot restart then I will be more confident that race hazards are removed. I...

Thanks for the answers. > To be honest, I'm not really sure about the UNIQUEID command you mentioned This UNIQUEID is part of DISKPART which is the most User UNfriendly command line tool I have ever encountered. These give information on DISKPART and UNIQUEID http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415 h...

The disk numbers (0-1-2-etc...) are independent from the BIOS, these are assigned by Windows, depending on the order how it can detect the actual hard disk controllers and drives on these controllers. In the BIOS setup, you may check the "Plug and Play OS installed" setting which should b...

Thanks for the information on the BIOS settings which I have written with pen and paper. I really wish I could access the Internet and this forum whilst within the BIOS :) I will look in the BIOS after a good night's sleep. To be sure we are on the same page regarding Disk and Partition Identities :...

Is the Disk ID (e.g. 000FA830 or baf784e7-6bbd-4cfb-aaac-e86c96e166ee) held in the MBR or in the Disc Controller Firmware or where ? One day I booted up and both my WDC and SamSung HDD's were down and Windows was in a bad way. The Samsung was down because the WDC ID value had been changed and became...

I have a 600 GB HDD by WDC, model WD6401AALS-00L3B2 Via 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate Disk Management I have changed its status from Online to Offline, and I now have Read Access for data recovery purposes, and believe it is write protected against normal Windows capabilities until I change status from ...

Numbers are always nice.

You failed to show the complete numbers under the Data column on the right.
If you try again with complete information it might improve ease and accuracy of diagnosis.

Acronis can verify its image backup files and that proves whether or not there are any errors between the backup and the contents of every sector as read at the time the backup was created. If Acronis read and accepted rubbish from a bad sector then rubbish is what you have in the backup. Just possi...

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