re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 4:38 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by raminder singh
(92 messages posted)
Thank you for explaining things to me about hard disks. I did download Western Digital's
disk check utility (mine is a WD hard disk) and have run it several times. No errors
were reported. Nevertheless, I suspect the disk is the culprit, having been damaged
in some way by the UPS crash.
The machine (and the cable) is only a year old, and on one has opened the box during
this period. Still I could buy a new cable and try it out.
As you will have read in my post of April 2, 9:20 pm, the slow imaging problem
seems to have vanished, though I don't know why. So, at present, the only problems
(event 11 and event 5) are when I log on or switch users. Otherwise the machine is
not slow.
Thank you for you advice.
On Friday, April 3, 2009 at 3:47 am, MartinM wrote:
>
>I don't mean to jump into the excellent help Jacob is giving you but, reviewing
all
>the information you have provided, it points to a failing disk drive or cable as
>a possibility.
>
>The specific errors you quote are 5: parity error and 11: HDD controller error.
>
>If the HDD is returning a lot of parity errors, and hence having to re-seek data,
>that could indeed slow things down enormously. It is possible that a surface scan
>would show up little, as the disk surface may be in fine fettle.
>
>Its also possible the the cable is playing up - they are very fragile.
>
>Mechanical problems with HDDs are common at startup - before the drive heats up
and
>lubricants soften.
>
>Having said all that, it is odd that you are getting slow operations long after
the
>errors have stopped showing - however some HDDs have internal mechanisms to correct
>errors and those would not necessarily show in the Windows Event Viewer, so maybe
>they are just more severe when the drive is cold.
>
>Have you acquired the disk manufacturer's diagnostic tools and run them ? They are
>usually pretty good.
>
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