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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
Thursday morning. Just a quick update.
Overnight I run Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic (DLGDIAG for windows),
SMART status was PASS.
Run the Short test and passed it.
Run the Extended test on the HD. It run for 6h27m29s - Test completed successfully.
Sectors 0 to 5860533167
Write Zero test - well it will erase the drive, not done.
Interesting, while writing these notes, the PC shut down and died again.....
Also last night I downloaded Seatools for Windows from the NETGEAR link. it was a VERY SLOW download, and when few minutes ago I tried to run it, it said that it failed the CRC check and did not install and run. so I will try to download it again.
Another note: the PC used for testing seems to be increasingly temperamental, it took few attempt to boot up, shutting down (and restarting) during boot up. I wonder if the PSU is failing or MORE TO THE POINT, the SEAGATE HD is not sapping up too much power to spin around (which is what you suggested straight away)
Overnight I run Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic (DLGDIAG for windows),
SMART status was PASS.
Run the Short test and passed it.
Run the Extended test on the HD. It run for 6h27m29s - Test completed successfully.
Sectors 0 to 5860533167
Write Zero test - well it will erase the drive, not done.
Interesting, while writing these notes, the PC shut down and died again.....
Also last night I downloaded Seatools for Windows from the NETGEAR link. it was a VERY SLOW download, and when few minutes ago I tried to run it, it said that it failed the CRC check and did not install and run. so I will try to download it again.
Another note: the PC used for testing seems to be increasingly temperamental, it took few attempt to boot up, shutting down (and restarting) during boot up. I wonder if the PSU is failing or MORE TO THE POINT, the SEAGATE HD is not sapping up too much power to spin around (which is what you suggested straight away)
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