Random Restarts - Disk error

[bigblockmatt]

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!!

[dicecca112]

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

[Sporg]

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.

[bigblockmatt]

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...

[Sporg]

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.

[Darkstar]

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.

[Sporg]

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.