XP needs to forget nasty HDD experience

[kjs]

A dual booting machine, both OSs are XP sp1 + fdisk update.
It has a front-of-case hdd loading drive rack.
Into this I load my Samsung HD300LD (300Gb, ata133) hdds (several) for offline storage.
One fine day the ide wasn't in right and hdd connection quit in the middle of things.
Now when I use this particular hdd it works at only a tenth of the normal speed.
Identical hdd drives can be put in it's place and they work normally.
Reformatting does not cure, nor rebooting & too late for a Restore.
The hdd rack shares with a dvd on the mobs second ide connector (cable select all round).
Booting to the backup OS has the drive in question operating normally.
As does putting it on a different machine (XP sp2).
It seems the XP-of-main-use remembers this particular drive from the others of identical
model and make and treats it differently.
If so...how do I make XP forget it ever met it?

Kevin

 

[Jim Macklin]

Run SMART test on that drive, you may have corrupted the
cache with the disconnect.

It isn't an XP issue. BTW, SP1 is not supported any longer.


|A dual booting machine, both OSs are XP sp1 + fdisk update.
| It has a front-of-case hdd loading drive rack.
| Into this I load my Samsung HD300LD (300Gb, ata133) hdds
(several) for offline storage.
| One fine day the ide wasn't in right and hdd connection
quit in the middle of things.
| Now when I use this particular hdd it works at only a
tenth of the normal speed.
| Identical hdd drives can be put in it's place and they
work normally.
| Reformatting does not cure, nor rebooting & too late for a
Restore.
| The hdd rack shares with a dvd on the mobs second ide
connector (cable select all round).
| Booting to the backup OS has the drive in question
operating normally.
| As does putting it on a different machine (XP sp2).
| It seems the XP-of-main-use remembers this particular
drive from the others of identical
| model and make and treats it differently.
| If so...how do I make XP forget it ever met it?
|
| Kevin
|
|

 

[kjs]

Jim Macklin wrote...

Run SMART test on that drive, you may have corrupted the
cache with the disconnect.

It isn't an XP issue. BTW, SP1 is not supported any longer.

Thanks Jim. Ran the SMART test but no problems reported, but low
r/w speed remains. Aside from XP I can think of no other variables in
this equation.

Kevin

 

[Jaymon]

A dual booting machine, both OSs are XP sp1 + fdisk update.
It has a front-of-case hdd loading drive rack.
Into this I load my Samsung HD300LD (300Gb, ata133) hdds (several) for
offline storage.
One fine day the ide wasn't in right and hdd connection quit in the middle
of things.

What does that mean..? Could a few pins have broken off or been bent, not
making contact..?

Now when I use this particular hdd it works at only a tenth of the normal
speed.
Identical hdd drives can be put in it's place and they work normally.

May need to eyeball the IDE connector on the affected HDD..?

Reformatting does not cure, nor rebooting & too late for a Restore.
The hdd rack shares with a dvd on the mobs second ide connector (cable
select all round).

Might want to check to see if the HDD has slipped into UDMA 2 mode or PIO
mode..?

Booting to the backup OS has the drive in question operating normally.
As does putting it on a different machine (XP sp2).

Sounds like you need to upgrade to SP2..

It seems the XP-of-main-use remembers this particular drive from the
others of identical
model and make and treats it differently.
If so...how do I make XP forget it ever met it?

Reformat the drive..?

Kevin

Cheers
j;-j