OS Disk Problems (maybe)

CraigMBecket · **1st July 2008, 12:25 AM**

Will shortly be returning to Aus for a couple of weeks away from Q8 and the crap that goes on here. So am planning as usual to give my systems the once over.

My wife has been reporting that the WHS is regularly (every couple of weeks or so) reporting that the OS disk in needs a repair.

My question is this:

Is this behaviour the normal windows thing where the longer something runs the more crap etc that the HDD picks up and a reboot is needed to clean it out, or should I be looking closely at the disk?

Craig.

simbot82 · **1st July 2008, 03:53 PM**

i'd get home and check out error log to see if it is reporting hardware issues on the HDD. A reboot can often work wonders but I would still scan hdd with a good proggie to check

GlenR · **1st July 2008, 04:40 PM**

I would definitely check the disk. I'm pretty sure the OS partition is just NTFS, so the usual checks will work - just be careful of and pool disk/partition as they are not standard format.

krypto · **1st July 2008, 06:49 PM**

My WHS had a couple of wobblies similar to what you are seeing. Solved by reconnecting sata and power leads.

TiggerK · **1st July 2008, 06:59 PM**

You could try and run a chkdsk c: /r command from an administrator command prompt and see if the resulting entry in the event log shows any bad sectors....?? Takes a while, but always worth checking.

Cheers
TiggerK

GlenR · **1st July 2008, 08:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by TiggerK

Takes a while, but always worth checking.

Shouldn't take that long - it's only 20GB on a WHS box.

CraigMBecket · **2nd July 2008, 02:58 AM**

Gentlemen,

Once again I ask a question and get a number of responses, thank you all. This is what I love about this community.

Looks like I will be checking out the disk and maybe trying krypto's suggestion.

Craig.

pantonious · **2nd July 2008, 04:43 PM**

If you can stand to have some down time, i would personally run the manufactorur's diagnostic tools on the HDDs. All of them have their own (Seagate, WD, Hitatchi, etc).

You normally need to boot off a CD/Floppy to do it.

ozbear · **2nd July 2008, 04:49 PM**

Craig,
I don't know how your disks are set up but I do know on one of my systems which has a RAID1 array for the system partition it will go into repair mode if WIndows (Vista) was terminated without a proper shutdown.

Is there any possibility that the PC is just being "turned off" or power disconnected instead of an orderly shutdown?

Oz

CraigMBecket · **3rd July 2008, 06:03 AM**

Hi pantonious,

Was considering the idea as I will have to do the same to 2 no disks (not in the WHS) to find out if they have problems or the MODO in my MCE has gone west. All disks ( 2 no questionable and the WHS OS) are Samasung but have not found diagnostic tools on their site yet, have not looked too hard as won't be able to use them until I get home.

Hi Oz,

WHS is in a dedicated box, not played with the disk systems so all are standard WHS without raid, (automatically set 20 GB OS partition in 500GB OS disk with additional disks added via the disk extender system) . System runs 24 hrs a day and has UPS so your scenario does not appear to apply.

Thanks for the idea anyway.

Craig

benogil · **10th July 2008, 12:24 PM**

Numerous reports on the main WHS forum on this, some are drive related ( bad sectors ), some are an erroneous report by WHS, seems to be a bug about half the time.

CraigMBecket · **11th July 2008, 04:33 AM**

benogil,

Thanks for that info. Will have to check the disk anyway but good to know.

Craig.