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Symptoms: Random Restarts. happens at night when nothing is going on (well, except folding obviously), or just playing music.

What event Viewer says: "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D." Type: Error, Source: disk, Category: None, Event ID :11

It is the same error each time. I went to look at which HD was 0 but When I look at the properties of the drives, (right clicking on drive in 'my computer' then selecting hardware tab) if lists the location as 0 for both.

Types of drives:
MAXTOR 6L200S0 200.0GB Hard Drive SATA150 - C drive with windows and all programs on it.
Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320-GB (st3320620as) - aux. drive with pictures, music, and random stuff.

Im not sure why or even which drive is causing the problem... Any direction is helpful!! thanks!!

Both Maxtor and Seagate have Disk Diagnostic Utilities, run those to check for a failing drive OR download UBCD and run any one of the disk check utilitiess

Weird, the same thing has been happening to me lately but I have a WD drive. I have had no luck pinpointing the problem. All of the HD checks have come up fine.

It seems like it will happen for a couple nights in a row then goes away for a month or so. It only happens in the middle of the night for me.

I will run the disk checks in the coming days. I ran the windows check and that seemed to come up clean ( not sure what i ran but it required me to restart and it ran before windows loaded.

Yes, mine usually restarts in the middle of the night as well. Very strange...

Let us know what you find out from the disk checks. I've been scratching my head about this one for a while now. I've also been backing up the data on my drive just in case it decides to frag itself.

for Bigblockmatt i would do the scans or UBCD like mentioned in the post.

for Sporg, are your drives on a controller? i had similar errors at one time due to some problem SATA drives on the controller no spinning up sequentially.

I have one SATA drive in the rig and it's using the on-board controller. Maybe something got corrupted - which isn't out of the realm of possibility. I'll start going that route. If it helps the board is an Intel 975XBX2 and I only have one SATA drive hooked up.

I've learned to live with it, but it is annoying. I sometimes don't check the rig for a couple of days when I'm really busy with real life stuff and it's annoying to see that it hasn't been folding! lol

Thanks for the advice.