Any suggestions?

[Azzan]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I wonder if it can detect a bad cable too or if there is some app that can.

I don't know. The only way I think you could know if it were a cable is if you had a second hard drive attached and it was flaking out too. Of course the controller could be going south too.

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I know I know,simple thing to open of the case and change cables. But honestly it isnt always that simple to crawl under a desk and unplug cables,then drag the case out, open it and change cables lol...yeah Im lazy

No, you're human!

[Praxeas]

Well that would be nice too, to detect if it was the controller...bad sata connector or bad cable.

I discovered on my home PC I had a bad cable. It would not seat right. From time to time my PC would freeze, unfreeze,then freeze

I found reseating the sata cable usually worked. I just thought that from vibration it was getting loose..and maybe it was but that should not happen.

I replaced it and problem solved. I thought at first my hard drive was going bad lol. But the axiom I learned a long time ago goes cables first lol

[Azzan]

Definitly cables first!

This brings back memories of my hardware days... oh the good ol' days! LOL

[RandyWayne]

It is important to remember (and I'm probably telling this to lurkers more than the people posting on this thread) is that when repairing a hard drive you need to do it in the following order:

1) Spinrite. Spinrite works at the lowest level of data on the hard drive platter current possible. It is NOT an undelete utility nor does it do any logical reconstruction of the file system although it DOES do a logical reconstruction of the data at the sector level.

2) Scandisk/Chkdsk should be run next. This works at a little higher level than Spinrite and deals more with the actual file system.

3) Run the virus scanner, or two of them.

4) Defrag!