Error Reading Drive 80 I/O Timeout

DBM · 01-19-2003, 12:04 AM

One week after building a new P4PE system with a Western Digital 80GB SE drive (WD800JB) in a Lian Li PC65 case, I discovered that my PC had frozen-up in Windows XP. :eek: I rebooted the machine and encountered an infinite reboot. :eek: I booted from the Windows XP CD and, using the Recovery Console, invoked the FIXBOOT command. This time, I encountered an even stranger situation -- all files on my C: drive had vanished and the C: partition was reported as FAT 16 instead of FAT32. :eek:

I decided to re-copy my old hard drive to my new 80GB hard drive. When I had built my new machine, I had no problems using Western Digital's utility to do that. This time, however, I received the following error message:

Error
Reading Drive 80 I/O Timeout:
Sector=180552616, Result=1

I could not find this error message on Western Digital's web site, so I called them. I was told that my boot record was probably corrupt and that I would FIRST have to use their utility to write zeroes to my new drive BEFORE I could clone my old drive.

All of this worked

and my new PC is back up and running. Unfortunately, I still don't know what caused the original problem.

1. I use Norton's Internet Security software, so I don't think that I was hit by a virus.
2. Lian Li's PC65 case mount drives vertically (i.e., sideways). I read that drives can be mounted that way as long as they are formatted in that position first. I wonder if I should have originally written zeroes to my new drive before copying my old drive to it?
3. Part of my BIOS and WinXP options had allowed my hard drive to power-down. I don't do this anymore, but could this have caused my problem?

diceless · 01-19-2003, 01:19 AM

Sounds like the harddrive fubar'ed. Personally, I wouldn't trust it.

As for your point 2, it doesn't matter what orientation it was formated in for vertical mounting. Just after the drive been burned in, changing the orientation can cause faster bearing wear and tear. Seen a whole set of scsi drives fail within 1 week after they were moved from a vertical mount raid cage to a server with the standard harddrive rack inside.

Diceless

01-19-2003, 12:04 AM	#1
DBM Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Wauwatosa, WI Posts: 74	Error Reading Drive 80 I/O Timeout One week after building a new P4PE system with a Western Digital 80GB SE drive (WD800JB) in a Lian Li PC65 case, I discovered that my PC had frozen-up in Windows XP. :eek: I rebooted the machine and encountered an infinite reboot. :eek: I booted from the Windows XP CD and, using the Recovery Console, invoked the FIXBOOT command. This time, I encountered an even stranger situation -- all files on my C: drive had vanished and the C: partition was reported as FAT 16 instead of FAT32. :eek: I decided to re-copy my old hard drive to my new 80GB hard drive. When I had built my new machine, I had no problems using Western Digital's utility to do that. This time, however, I received the following error message: Error Reading Drive 80 I/O Timeout: Sector=180552616, Result=1 I could not find this error message on Western Digital's web site, so I called them. I was told that my boot record was probably corrupt and that I would FIRST have to use their utility to write zeroes to my new drive BEFORE I could clone my old drive. All of this worked and my new PC is back up and running. Unfortunately, I still don't know what caused the original problem. 1. I use Norton's Internet Security software, so I don't think that I was hit by a virus. 2. Lian Li's PC65 case mount drives vertically (i.e., sideways). I read that drives can be mounted that way as long as they are formatted in that position first. I wonder if I should have originally written zeroes to my new drive before copying my old drive to it? 3. Part of my BIOS and WinXP options had allowed my hard drive to power-down. I don't do this anymore, but could this have caused my problem? __________________ Asus P4PE/R/L/F/SAT/GBLAN (v 1.03; bios 1007) * Intel P4 2.4B GHz (533FSB) * 2 x Corsair CMX512-3200C2PT * Vantec VAN-470A Power Supply * ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (Catalyst 5.6, DX9.0b) * WD1200JB SE (120GB EIDE 8MB cache) * Samsung SH-S162L DVD+RW Lightscribe* Sony 3.5" Black FDD (MPF920) * Lian Li PC65-USB Case * Sony 21" Multiscan E540 * Windows XP - Home (SP2) * Belkin 1200VA UPS
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01-19-2003, 01:19 AM	#2
diceless Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 202	Sounds like the harddrive fubar'ed. Personally, I wouldn't trust it. As for your point 2, it doesn't matter what orientation it was formated in for vertical mounting. Just after the drive been burned in, changing the orientation can cause faster bearing wear and tear. Seen a whole set of scsi drives fail within 1 week after they were moved from a vertical mount raid cage to a server with the standard harddrive rack inside. Diceless
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