Ideapad s510 hdd problem
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my ideapad C drive field problems c drive spontaneously with time running out What could be the reason thanks
When the size of the C drive on my computer is running by itself is the reason it
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Is the problem caused because the new HDD has a larger capacity or is it something else?
Your help is appreciated.
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What is the error. Yesterday, I swapped HDD on one of my laptops from 160GB to 750GB w/o any problem. My suggestion is to check the BIOS and upgrade it.
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I have a C665D laptop. Eight months after i purchase it I got hdd problem (reallocated sector count -> value around 2000 !!).
So I send it to service, and got with new hard drive.
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Did somebody had this same problem?
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> Any HDD will die sooner or later
I understand this and agree with that, but what is the average of usage the HDD ?
My HDD seems to die very soon (power on 105 days 9 hours )
> Also moving the notebook while HDD is in use would affect the HDD functionality.
I'm also understand this, but believe me or not, but I'm very careful when moving the laptop. That is why I don't understand why my disk is gone so quickly. From SMART table of HDD I could see that the value of G-sense error is only 14.
On my wife's laptop's HDD is perfekt, no bad sectors etc. and G-sense errors is over 300. No one is special careful with this laptop, using as normal way, and nothing happen with HDD.
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Or may be if not with laptop, there is some issue (problem) with this series of HDD?
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smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [i686-linux-3.9.4-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Device Model: ST3500630A
Serial Number: 5QG1X3G1
Firmware Version: 3.AAE
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is: Fri Jun 7 11:41:09 2013 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 430) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 163) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 112 095 006 Pre-fail Always - 43863857
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age Always - 2833
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 047 036 030 Pre-fail Always - 32856947045143
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 082 082 000 Old_age Always - 16160
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3563
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 016 016 000 Old_age Always - 84
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 057 047 045 Old_age Always - 43 (Min/Max 23/43)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 043 053 000 Old_age Always - 43 (0 16 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 063 054 000 Old_age Always - 32213260
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 4294967295
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 001 001 000 Old_age Offline - 4294967295
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 118 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 118 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:18.309 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 117 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 116 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 115 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:13.895 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.895 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.887 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:13.419 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 10 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 114 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:13.895 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.895 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.887 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:13.419 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:13.419 NOP [Abort queued commands]
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 16160 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15759 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
It would be great if someone could help me a little to prevent some major incident and point out what's happening. Thanks in advance!@pok0j
You best bet at getting the most uncorrupted data out of that disk, is to stop using it until you get a new disk that is at least twice as big as that one. The reason is that when you get a new disk, you want to try to do a full disk image in one go and get as much data out as possible before more data corruption occurs or the disk stops working at all.
The twice as large requirement is because you can then take your time to extract the files you want from the image and have enough free space to store them. After that make a backup strategy if you don't have one yet.
@drhill1
Has far as I know, both Current_Pending_Sector and Offline_Uncorrectable attributes start out at zero and 1) increase when there is a problem with a sector, 2) decrease when the problem is solved either by overwriting the affected sectors or when the sectors get reallocated thus decreasing the count, which should return to zero when there are no more sectors with problems. This implies that the count should never exceed the total number of user addressable sectors. Like I said, I have never seen any disk where those attributes didn't make sense, if those attributes weren't defined they wouldn't be reported I suppose. -
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Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
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HDD problem on IDE 2 (or IDE3)
Hi,
I have a problem with my HDD. It's not recognize in the bios when i plug it to the IDE 2 or 3. I have my burner and my dvd on the IDE 1.
What can i do ??? It's a problem to have a HDD and a CD driver on the same nap ???
THx a lot for the answer.False.
Some optical devices will only work (or work more reliablyt) if only on the end connector.
Others like to be on the middle connector. That's true even if you have the jumpers set for the correct position on the cable.
So, for example, if you have two optical that like to be on the end, you might have problems with one in the middle, even if the jumpers are set correctly.
Thats why i suggested you try with just one optical.
You may be able to eventually get everything sorted out but it is much better to get your system up and running with the HDD on IDE1 and one optical on IDE 2.
When that works reliably, you can then experiment with adding the second optical back in and find the position for it that results in the most stable system. -
I have a T60 running Win XP Professional - I was experimenting with using a bootable CD with a small kernel verison of UBUNTU Unix what was supposedly able to run off the CD without any harm to my existing OS. Uh Hem.. Well that doesn't seem to be the case. I am no longer able to boot up successfully.Below is the trouble shooting I did but need some follow up ideas
HDD diagnostics program says ERROR code 0000: Read verification failed
If I let the normal start up take place I will get the blue screen of death.. stating umountable boot volume
I tried the Rescue and Recovery CD - I hear CD loading but don't get past the black "ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery" screen.. which I now know probably is because the "safe" UBUNTU corrupted the HDD.
So , I suspect that I might have to reformat my HDD. .. But on the T60 I am not sure how to do it with the "hidden" partition that is on the Think pad laptops.
Any advice.. WILL BE GREATLY APPREACIATED
TIA
RIchI am not going to worry much over the PSU, my comp seems to run pretty cool.
Anyways I solved the boot problem and it was not the IDE cable backwards or jumper locations. It was because the drives i was trying to boot from were secondary drives on a dual boot system, i just did advanced install on the new drive and tried using that drive as master. Both 40 gigs are now working...Lesson learned. I am not an expert, but i am getting there
Now i have to figure out the IDE RAID thingie..I know there is already a host of info on it so i will do a search.
Thank you all for your help, and I will probably be here again with something or another, lol. -
Sorting out an HDD problem diagnosis
In the topic I staryed on "Safari Beta 3 locked up now iMovie won't run" in the Safari beta 3 group, the discussion changed from an iMovie/Safari 3 issue to one of HDD reliability. Previous experience suggested to me that my problems may be related to a clash between the HDD controller firmware and the OS.
It's also been suggested that the problems could be image related. However, I have considerable image experience on Windows boxes and I while I have seen the occasional corruption, I've never seen these sorts of issues.
I have had:
Lockup with trashed OS on hard restart -- archived and reinstalled OS. The machine was only a couple of weeks old with only a few apps (Aperture, Quicken, and iWorks) loaded.
Then after the OS reinstall:
Some transfered JPEG files that were OK on my old PC, were unreadable on the iMac. Repeated transfers using alternate methods, succeeded in bring all over successfully . . . eventually. This was a problem before and after the OS reinstall.
Transferring application data also corrupted, but in a "neat" fashion, i.e. the data was completely wrong, but also completely readable. This was a problem before and after the OS reinstall.
System files go missing in IOBluetoothUI yet they are still there when copy and replace is attempted.
Emptying the Trash resulted in a restore of the earliest versions of many, perhaps all, of the files in the trash.
Folders going empty for no apparent reason.
When copying files into folders, I end up with nested folders of the same name instead, with the copied files either at the lowest level or at both levels.
Locksup requiring a hard restart keep happening, usually resulting in file damage somewhere.
My surviving data is now well backed up so I'm tempted to do a format and reinstall of the OS, however, before I go to that effort, I'd like to get some sense from the experienced people here if I'm likely wasting my time and the HDD needs replacing.
ThanksBecause it isn't clear that you've ever reformatted the drive in the past nor attempted to repair the drive prior to reinstalling OS X there's no way to know if the drive itself is defective or if you may have some other hardware defect such as bad or defective RAM or logic board. Inasmuch as that's the apparent situation I'd suggest you at least do the following:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disk. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.
In your case I would NOT omit Steps 4-6 because zeroing the drive will discover and spare out any bad sectors that may have developed and will also assure the drive will be totally cleaned. After completing the formatting you can quit DU and return to the installer to finish reinstalling OS X.
I also suggest that you run full diagnostics on the machine. Boot from the OS X Installer Disc One that came with the computer. After the chime press and hold down the "D" key until the diagnostic screen appears. Run the extended diagnostic tests several times. Note the full output of any reported errors discovered during the testing. -
Toshiba P10-304 crashing, hdd problems?
Hi All,
I have a Toshiba P10-304 and its recently been going a bit mental.
I am running XP Pro and basically it first started crashing frequently and then later it came up with the error : media test failure, check connection , etc. As a result, I figured the hard drive had died. Since then I have bought a new hard drive (seagate momentus) and it formatted fine and was working well for 2 days. But now on the 3rd day, it has started to display similar symptoms as my old oem toshiba drive. It tends to crash frequently, the hard drive continues to make a horrible ticking noise even with the system has crashed. It also for the first time displayed the same 'media test failure..' error messages but then on reboot booted fine, but only to crash again about 5 minutes later.
Ive just finished university and am doing a spot of web design and its really annoying me so I would appreciate any help.
Cheers,
IdnanHi,
it can be that the IDE controller is defective, this explaines why the new HDD have also problems!
The only thing you can do is contacting a Serivce Partner for a checkup!
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External Hdd problem with macbook pro 13" i5
I bought a extern hdd last week and i have detect that it doesn´t initialize when my early macbook pro 13" i5 come back from sleep or i turn on the mac. I must reconnect the hdd´s usb cable. My question is... Thats it normal?
Very true that if you don't see it in Disk Utility, you also won't see it on the desktop.
It sounds like you have an intermittent contact somewhere. It might be worth trying a different cable and a different port. Also try that cable with some other device.
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I have bought it from Canada but now I'm far away from there. So if anyone knows the solution please help me.Please reinstall your default touchpad driver (ELAN). According to Elan: The main cause of unexpected cursor moving or click is the accidental palm contact with the touch pad. You can adjust your Palm Tracking setting to maximum to make your touch pad insensitive to "palm contacts"
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