Hey guys I have a sad story of pain and woe from my new Seagate 500gb 5400 drive I got for christmas.
A couple of days ago my XP partition was running a bit slow. So I ran my XP Optimizer software. When I finished that I tried to run the disk defrag utility and it was giving me a disk error. I set chkdsk to run a full scan on restart and restarted my computer.
Well when I did that the restart took almost 4 and a half hours! I have never had a scan take that long before. It didn't report any bad clusters or sectors, which was odd but I didn't think anything of it. I decided to boot into OS X and run disc utility on that partition. Sure enough it found an error and corrected it.
Fast forward to last night, I was streaming It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to my room mates xbox 360. I shut the computer down, but my friend later on decided he wanted to watch more episodes. So while I was in the shower he turned my MBP on and the machine subsequently crashed when OS X started up. I know he didn't do anything other then push the power button on so I went to work.
Apparently the partitions on the drive are really screwed up. XP ran its own utility and I was able to boot into that, but on OS X it would restart when trying to boot up :-/ I did a PRAM reset and tried booting into single user mode/.
That definitely did work. I ran /sbin/fsck -fy and let it go. The command halted with a volume read error and stopped the check
I tried repairing the drive using Macdrive on OS X and that was useless as well. It halted halfway while checking the catologue.
I don't have my install discs since they've been scratched to nothing. I called Apple and they're shipping me new ones. In the meantime a friend of mine gave me a copy of disc warrior to try.
Is there anything else I can try to do to get this partition working? I have time machine backing stuff up so I'm ok on that end, but I don't want to send this drive back to Seagate for repair.
A couple of days ago my XP partition was running a bit slow. So I ran my XP Optimizer software. When I finished that I tried to run the disk defrag utility and it was giving me a disk error. I set chkdsk to run a full scan on restart and restarted my computer.
Well when I did that the restart took almost 4 and a half hours! I have never had a scan take that long before. It didn't report any bad clusters or sectors, which was odd but I didn't think anything of it. I decided to boot into OS X and run disc utility on that partition. Sure enough it found an error and corrected it.
Fast forward to last night, I was streaming It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to my room mates xbox 360. I shut the computer down, but my friend later on decided he wanted to watch more episodes. So while I was in the shower he turned my MBP on and the machine subsequently crashed when OS X started up. I know he didn't do anything other then push the power button on so I went to work.
Apparently the partitions on the drive are really screwed up. XP ran its own utility and I was able to boot into that, but on OS X it would restart when trying to boot up :-/ I did a PRAM reset and tried booting into single user mode/.
That definitely did work. I ran /sbin/fsck -fy and let it go. The command halted with a volume read error and stopped the check
I tried repairing the drive using Macdrive on OS X and that was useless as well. It halted halfway while checking the catologue.
I don't have my install discs since they've been scratched to nothing. I called Apple and they're shipping me new ones. In the meantime a friend of mine gave me a copy of disc warrior to try.
Is there anything else I can try to do to get this partition working? I have time machine backing stuff up so I'm ok on that end, but I don't want to send this drive back to Seagate for repair.