Mysterious SATA defragment

[Volken]

Recently my second SATA Seagate HD (7200.7 - 200GB) is experiencing mysterious behavior after I engage disk defragment within W2K Pro.

Please look at attached picture to get some idea > http://s05.imagehost.org/0104/myst_Sea.gif


I don't loose anything of data considering dark nature of this message warning

But this is not pleasant at all

First SATA is WD (36GB) and FAT32, while this Seagate is NTFS.

Once I start defragment with Seagate for a few moments (minute or so) mouse gets frozen. Then I get message that defragment is finished and other messages as you can see on picture.

Seagate is fully sorted so there is nothing to defragment but how to sort this out without fresh new OS? What is the nature of this strange anomaly?

Yes, I had some freeware utility installed that does the same job and there for the first time I had this Seagate freeze episode, now that I have uninstalled the same...it behaves the same in native W2K defragment tool as well.

All ears for you inputs ???

[Shogun]

Can't see any picture?

[Volken]

Can't see any picture?

Pardons, I edited, look at the picture now

Are you fast or what

[turkster]

Hmm had something a bit similar to this happen before. My problem didnt have anything to do with defrag but I kept getting the "Delayed write fail" message (similar to what your getting) but I couldnt find anything physically wrong with the drive (ie benchmarks etc ran fine). AFAIK I know it was caused because I was actually trying to copy some corrupted files to this disk. Once i got rid of the corrupted files the disk worked fine and has done so ever since.

I dunno if this helps but you could try benchmarks etc. I presume you can still read all the data on the disk?

[Volken]

Hmm had something a bit similar to this happen before. My problem didnt have anything to do with defrag but I kept getting the "Delayed write fail" message (similar to what your getting) but I couldnt find anything physically wrong with the drive (ie benchmarks etc ran fine). AFAIK I know it was caused because I was actually trying to copy some corrupted files to this disk. Once i got rid of the corrupted files the disk worked fine and has done so ever since.I dunno if this helps but you could try benchmarks etc. I presume you can still read all the data on the disk?

Well I can't check almost 120GB files of DATA to verify for each file, but everything seems fine

I've checked all latest video recording large files and they all seem fine.

What is good to mention is that hidden folder : "System Volume Information" is not accessible on this Seagate (?)

I can check the same file on every partition of WD but not on Seagate.

That would allude that it is being uses or written to this folder but what and by what source?

I've checked the preliminary drive test and HD is fine (after all , brand new HD)

Should I install Norton Speed Disk util ?

Can this nightmare Huge ND package be installed just with Speed Disk, I really would hate to have Huge and slow Norton with all those tools?

[Steve]

Check the connections, check the drivers, and most importantly, chkdsk!

[Volken]

Check the connections, check the drivers, and most importantly, chkdsk!

Look for yourself Kez :


All checked no problems with hardware.

Dear lord what on earth is causing this?

[Volken]

Well, after playing with MFT (Master File Table) and good old chkdsk /f ... I managed to get this done. All sorted now

Bit since this problem is related with corruption on media, I just hope this is it.

I will in more extensive manner check later Seagate alone with their Sea Tools

This was also a strange indication that troubles me : http://s04.imagehost.org/0590/Cap3.gif