ok, and quick question, can vista handle a 1 terabyte hard drive? or should i switch to xp or windows 7? because ive only tested the hard drive with windows vista and not xp or 7
oh ok because i got an error from vista and yeah but thanks
That does seem like a common factor, you've had all of these drives in some sort of RAID configuration, correct? Maybe it's the controller after all. Might want to do a test on your PSU just to be on the safe side too, just to make sure it's putting out reasonably clean power at the right voltages.Update:
I took the two drives to Micro Direct this morning, after running Dban to clear the drives for testing.
They did a quick test on each drive (took around 10 minutes each) and they both came back fine.
He said to run a extended test at home, and write down any errors if something still isn't right.
The only conclusion I can come up with now, is that my Intel RAID controller isn't worth using again, and to just run drives as standalone.
Maybe it's the controller that has been causing all the issues on my drives.
Another thought, is because all the drives now contain only 0's, there won't be any bad sectors to test for using a quick test, so something could still be up.
EDIT:
Running extended tests on each. Approx 2 hours a drive
Yep, all extended tests came out fine. So I guess the only thing to do now is re-install Windows on one drive, and use the other as a backup, and some un-important files.
Won't be trusting Intel RAID again.
Does anyone know of a free imaging program like Norton Ghost that will create an image of the drive when Windows is set up/programs installed/upgrades installed?
Is this any good?
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