Hi there!
I have had some problems with 2 western digital hard disk, one of them i talked about last year, let’s start with the facts:
- i bought a wd640 black and after some month and a no intensive use it began to give problems accessing and writing files (cannot write and read MFT$ it said…)…just some days and it was not seen from S.O. XPSP2 anymore, but it was recognized from BIOS
- i bought a 1gb wdRE4 to recover all files as possible with test disk and save them on the new drive…just a couple of week and also the RE4 began to have difficulty on opening a folder (it contains only wav files recorded by me), trying to open it makes the S.O. freeze…
- after some month without using the 2 drive i bought another wd (2tb mybook essential) and recovered all files another time (RE4 only has problem with that folder at the moment)…
- so that, i have made some test on first wd640 and DLG warned me about source code 07
- after a partial zerofill the same error was always present, but S.O. (Vista this time) could see it and it gave me the possibility to format (even if the disk capacity was about 50mb smaller than the aspected)…it seemed to work, but the source code error was always there, so i made a total zerofill…after that…the quick test seems to be ok, same as the extended test…can i be pretty sure with it now? these are the last smart test results:
Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold
001 Raw Read Error Rate 200 200 0000000000-0000 051
003 Spin Up Time 171 163 0000000000-1151 021
004 Start/Stop Count 099 099 0000000000-07A8 000
005 Reallocation Sector Count 200 200 0000000000-0000 140
007 Seek Error Rate 100 253 0000000000-0000 000
009 Power-On Hours Count 091 091 0000000000-1C1C 000
010 Spin Retry Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
011 Recalibration Retries 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
012 Device Power Cycle Count 099 099 0000000000-07A4 000
192 Emergency Retract Count 199 199 0000000000-0335 000
193 Load/unload Cycle Count 200 200 0000000000-07A8 000
194 HDA Temperature 117 095 30 C 000
196 Reallocation Event Count 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
197 Current Pending Errors Count 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
198 Uncorrectable Errors Count 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
200 Multi Zone Error Rate 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
than i made the same quick test on the RE4 and it gave me the same 07 source code error!! i think i have to make the same passages with RE4, but what could be the problem with 2 high-end wd hard drive?
thanks in advance!
