Windows 7 hard drive failure report
Hello, I am using Windows 7 RTM and I get these warnings from Windows 7 about a hard drive that is going to fail. I never had any problems with my hard drives up to now. The notice came up after 2 days of Windows 7 usage. Before I was using Windows XP. I checked the smart parameters using Lavasys Everest and HdTune and they both gave the same error. I put the drive in another computer running Windows XP and checked again with both programs and the warnings were gone. When I put the drive back in my Windows 7 machine, the warnings were also gone. A few days later I got the same problem with another drive. This drive faild almost every smart parameter. I unplugged the harddrive, plugged it back in and all the warnings were back to normal. The thing I find really weird is that i only get the warnings from my 2 newest drives (out of 7 drives total) so I 'm a little suspicious about the validity of these warnings.
August 18th, 2009 2:53am

Which exact make and model is the harddisk? Try downloading the utility from it's manufacturer site and run a test on the drive
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August 18th, 2009 5:13am

The harddisk is a Seagate st3500630. I tried running Seatool but this program seems to have compatibility issues as the program always stops respondingThe other drive is a lacie D2 quadra 1TB connected using esata. I didn't find any diagnostics tools from Lacie.
August 18th, 2009 7:13am

Did you run Seatools by booting the SeatoolsCD?I would also suggest downloading the latest version, if you haven't already done so.I have used Seatools on several different motherboards, with ATI, NVidia and VID chipsets, and it has always found the drives.You can also use it for basic tests on non-Seagate or Maxtor drives. It will give you an error message about the drive having been over-temperature but you can ignore it.
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August 18th, 2009 4:42pm

I ran Seatool from the CD and it said that Smart has not been tripped and everything looks ok. I did a full scan of the drive and this came out clean to.
August 21st, 2009 3:02am

The drive is OK.Therefore the problem is with Windows. More specifically, the problem is with way Windows interfaces with the drive. This can often be caused by the HD device driver, chipset driver, or BIOS.See if there are newer versions of the BIOS and motherboard chipset drivers.
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August 21st, 2009 4:16pm

We run an IT shop and have had moreissues this month with failing hard drives then ever. With Vista, Windows 7, 2003 server, etc. The recent download that enables Windows Search may be the issue. It comes standard with Vista, 7, 2008 but is a download for XP and 2003. This service is said to run the hard drives at 5-7 degrees Celcius higher than without it, due to the constant activity of the indexing service. (32-40 degress Farenhiet hotter!) and may be what 's causing the hard drives to fail. I have disabled the service on all stations and servers. To disable, login with admin rights, click start, click run or type in the blank box 'services.msc' look for Windows Search, change it to disable and click Stop and Apply. If you want a great document, photo, pdf tool for searching look into Worldox.Good luck.TuComp(ps As always, do so at your own risk. No liability incurred by us.)
August 27th, 2009 7:31pm

Just to keep things straight, 1 deg C = 1.8 deg F. Therefore a drive running 5-7 deg C hotter is running 9-13 deg F hotter.
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June 10th, 2012 8:55am

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