Hello there everyone from WD,
I just bought my WD 2TB Caviar Green internal HDD about a month ago and have been suing it without any problems. However, ever since yesterday, it slowed down tremendously. I checked the current transfer mode in under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controlleds of the device manager in windows XP and found out that it is using PIO mode, i did some registry hack and it’s now back to the ultra DMA 5 mode and the speed is fine again. Prior to this, i was trying to read a DVD (copy some of its contents) and had a lot of cyclic redundancy check problems… so i guess the problem is caused by the CRCs. Everything is back to normal…until i checked the HDD using WD’s data lifeguard which gives the following error:
| Test Error Code: | 06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 97 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1! |
I did the some additional test using HDD tune pro and the following are the results: (before this i’ve done disk check but doesn’t seem to solve the problem)
http://img84.imageshack.us/i/hdderror.png/
it’s just a single count of error only! … anyone knows how to solve this problem? many thanx in advance! have a nice day!^^
