Seagate Hard disks

[Ray]

I think I've got another failing Seagate drive in my Server  I've been seeing an error message in event viewer about Hard disk 0 having a bad block. I am now running a Seatools for DOS long test on the drive, it's now done 10% of the test and found 76 errors already,  methinks I shall be buying another Samsung drive before very long, and sod's law it's the system disk as well. 

[Simon]

That's bad luck, Ray. 

[Rik]

Very bad luck. Touching wood, the pair of Seagate's on this machine have been fine, but the system drive is a Samsung (how's that for hedge betting? )

[Ray]

Well it's b*gg*red now it wont boot, gets so far then throws a BSOD complaining about a registry fault and it can't load one of the hive files because it's missing or corrupt.  looks like a reinstall onto one of the other disks. 

[Rik]

Now that is annoying, although I suspect your language of choice is more colourful, Ray.

[Ray]

Now that is annoying, although I suspect your language of choice is more colourful, Ray.

It was indeed, Rik, I'm going to play safe this time and install it on the Samsung HD though and then replace the Seagate with another Samsung at a later date, fortunately the Seagate is still under warranty. It's annoying though because every time you do a reinstall of WHS you have to mess about re activating it, you can't do the trick of saving the activation files like you can with XP. 

[Rik]

The joys of computing, eh. 

[Ray]

The joys of computing, eh. 

You can say that again, Rik, I think it must have taken notice at what was calling it before my last post I left it trying to boot into safe mode command prompt as nothing seemed to be happening I decided to go make a cup of tea, I've just gone back to it and found it has started up normally and now seems to be running OK.   

[Rik]

Don't you just hate it when that happens and you have no idea why?

[Ray]

Don't you just hate it when that happens and you have no idea why?

I do, Rik, most strange because it had rebooted itself about 4 times prior to this each time coming up with the error screen, doing a memory dump and then a reboot. 

[Rik]

Somedays, I just long for a quill and a bottle of Quink.

[Ray]

Somedays, I just long for a quill and a bottle of Quink.

Ah those were the days, Rik, just ended up with inky fingers and pockets then.

[Rik]

The old leaky fountain pen trick.

[Ray]

The old leaky fountain pen trick.

That's it, had few of those in my time. 

[Rik]

Remember those magic bottles of ink remover.

[Ray]

Remember those magic bottles of ink remover.

Vaguely, Rik. 

[Rik]

ISTR using milk at times too...

[Ray]

ISTR using milk at times too...

I don't remember that one, Rik. 

[Rik]

Maybe that was invisible ink, then?

[Ray]

Maybe that was invisible ink, then?

I thought that was Lemon juice and then you warmed it up to see it?

[Rik]

That certainly worked. Why do I have milk in my mind... Google time.

[Rik]

Here you go:

http://www.tipking.co.uk/tip/2842.html

[Ray]

That certainly worked. Why do I have milk in my mind... Google time.

Coffee and biscuits time?  

[Rik]

Biscuits maybe, coffe, never.

[Sebby]

Is it just me or are Seagate drives not what they once were?