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mercury14

mercury14

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When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?
 
mercury14 said:
When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?
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Sounds like you might have a beasty loose.
 
vetteman said:
Run chkdsk on the other drive.
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Chkdsk will only look for bad sectors on the disks and since it's a RAID-0 array it will be impossible to run it on just one drive. RAID-0 means the OS sees both drives as one big one, with a performance increase. Bad sectors are not the issue here. The problem is one of the following:

a) Your RAID controller is dying,

b) One of your hard drives is experiencing some type of mechanical failure in such a way that's not very noticeable for most tasks. It's also possible that the RAID array is somehow compensating for the decreased performance on one drive.

If I were you I'd do a full system backup, replace the drive, and then reinstall from image.
 
Ask about its childhood.



mercury14 said:
When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?
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cebalrai said:
Chkdsk will only look for bad sectors on the disks and since it's a RAID-0 array it will be impossible to run it on just one drive. RAID-0 means the OS sees both drives as one big one, with a performance increase. Bad sectors are not the issue here. The problem is one of the following:

a) Your RAID controller is dying,

b) One of your hard drives is experiencing some type of mechanical failure in such a way that's not very noticeable for most tasks. It's also possible that the RAID array is somehow compensating for the decreased performance on one drive.

If I were you I'd do a full system backup, replace the drive, and then reinstall from image.
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Okay so I ran Seatools on the array and it tested out okay. I wonder what's wrong...
 
jeninflorida said:
naughty boy, a gaming laptop! I love the large screen

a friend of ours, his dell laptop just died. heat issues.
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Yeah it's a gaming laptop and the screen is great. But I have it attached to a 24" monitor to it's basically just a small desktop. It also has two graphics cards. :)

My wife is deployed right now so I've been gaming again.
 
mercury14 said:
Yeah it's a gaming laptop and the screen is great. But I have it attached to a 24" monitor to it's basically just a small desktop. It also has two graphics cards. :)

My wife is deployed right now so I've been gaming again.
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i'm glad hubby never got into gaming. I have him working right now....he's editing my zombie story
 
jeninflorida said:
i'm glad hubby never got into gaming. I have him working right now....he's editing my zombie story
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I gamed back in the day and occasionally still do. But now with no wife here I find it fills the time nicely.

I ran into a game called Amnesia recently: http://www.amnesiagame.com/#main. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen by far. Playing it alone at night with headphones on has been an extraordinary experience. No joke, this thing is amazing.
 
mercury14 said:
I gamed back in the day and occasionally still do. But now with no wife here I find it fills the time nicely.

I ran into a game called Amnesia recently: http://www.amnesiagame.com/#main. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen by far. Playing it alone at night with headphones on has been an extraordinary experience. No joke, this thing is amazing.
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a friend wants me to work with him on a game....but its old school...like those old text based games
 
Thinking of getting a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive. Anyone know anything about them?
 
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