My D drive is "inacessable due to to an I/O error" [Archive]

J.Clints

03-14-2007, 01:01 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: What the fuck?I can't open the D drive, I can't scan it with AVG or anything...it seems to be seriously slowing down my computer because as far as I can tell nothing else is wrong.  What do you guys think is up?  How should I approach trying to fix this?is the light flashing?

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:02 PM

jclintsma wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: What the fuck?I can't open the D drive, I can't scan it with AVG or anything...it seems to be seriously slowing down my computer because as far as I can tell nothing else is wrong.  What do you guys think is up?  How should I approach trying to fix this?is the light flashing?On my CPU?  Yeah, the green load light thingie will do this weird, slow, steady flashing when it slows down.

J.Clints

03-14-2007, 01:04 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: jclintsma wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: What the fuck?I can't open the D drive, I can't scan it with AVG or anything...it seems to be seriously slowing down my computer because as far as I can tell nothing else is wrong.  What do you guys think is up?  How should I approach trying to fix this?is the light flashing?On my CPU?  Yeah, the green load light thingie will do this weird, slow, steady flashing when it slows down.Ok shut down your cpu when you turn it back on open the drive asap. Take out the disc and dont leave any disc in when you turn  it off.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:06 PM

Sorry, I should have clarified...on my computer, the D drive is my second internal hard drive.  My two disc drives are E and F.  The two CD drives seem to be doing fine, though almost anything I try and burn on F gets fucked up by these random system slowdowns I'm having.

J.Clints

03-14-2007, 01:07 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: Sorry, I should have clarified...on my computer, the D drive is my second internal hard drive.  My two disc drives are E and F.  The two CD drives seem to be doing fine, though almost anything I try and burn on F gets fucked up by these random system slowdowns I'm having. OH sorry. let me think

J.Clints

03-14-2007, 01:07 PM

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:09 PM

jclintsma wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: Sorry, I should have clarified...on my computer, the D drive is my second internal hard drive.  My two disc drives are E and F.  The two CD drives seem to be doing fine, though almost anything I try and burn on F gets fucked up by these random system slowdowns I'm having. OH sorry. let me thinkI've done all the basic stuff like scanning my systems with SpyBot and AVG and Ad-Aware and everything seems fine on C, the main drive...they're just unable to open D, and as such can't scan them.  I never download anything directly to D, so presumably anything that's fucked up or infected that drive would have fucked up C as well, right?  So maybe PC is just having a random brain fart...I just have no idea how to open up D drive at this point or even what to look for.Right now, I'm blaming the porn.  Or the music bootlegs.  Karma, goddammit...

Doctor Z

03-14-2007, 01:15 PM

Huh-huh... you said "D Drive"...<img src="http://www.crabsodyinblue.com/butthead.jpg" border="0" alt="butthead" title="butthead" width="300" height="225" />

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:16 PM

Oh, and it's reaaaaaaalllllly slow everytime I start things up.  It lingers on the "Welcome" screen for like 2-3 minutes before finally getting everything going.  Other slowdowns seem to occur when clicking between an open browser and the windows toolbar, or even between functions within a single program.I just slapped on some critical Windows updates and updated AVG...gonna reboot and try scanning again.  Any help is appreciated, guys!

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:31 PM

Still the same.HELLLLLLLLP!!!

DoubleJ

03-14-2007, 01:39 PM

You should run ScanDisk on the D drive. You might have physical damage on the hard drive. It usually takes a while to complete, and you may have to restart before it will check for damage. It will prompt you if a restart is required.<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150532">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150532 </a>

This message was edited by DoubleJ on 3-14-07 @ 5:42 PM

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 01:48 PM

DoubleJ wrote: You should run ScanDisk on the D drive. You might have physical damage on the hard drive. It usually takes a while to complete, and you may have to restart before it will check for damage. It will prompt you if a restart is required.<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150532">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150532 </a>This message was edited by DoubleJ on 3-14-07 @ 5:42 PM I don't think that's applicable for me.  ScanDisk seems to be an option for older OS computers.  I don't have it on mine.

DoubleJ

03-14-2007, 01:52 PM

Windows XP Open My Computer and right-click the D drive and select Properties. Click on the Tools tab. Click check now in the error-checking box.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:10 PM

It takes a while, but I can pull up the properties.  I can select error-checking and disk defrag but it's not able to do either.  It says there's no free space or space being used it says the file type is "RAW."

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:25 PM

Sorry, it says the file SYSTEM is RAW.

Doctor Z

03-14-2007, 02:28 PM

Huh-huh... you said "RAW"...<img src="http://www.crabsodyinblue.com/butthead.jpg" border="0" alt="butthead" title="butthead" width="300" height="225" />

Gvac

03-14-2007, 02:33 PM

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:35 PM

So does anyone have any clue what happened and/or what I can do?I keep trying to google troubleshooting uides and everything find is really out of date from a few years ago or makes zero sense.  Can anyone explain this to me as if I was the technological retard IU actually am?Sorry to keep bumping this, it's just really annoying.

HBox

03-14-2007, 02:35 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: Sorry, it says the file SYSTEM is RAW.I think the drive is either broken or it got completely formatted. If you are not seeing anything under capacity it's probably broken. Either way you're still fucked. Have you tried disconnecting the drive? Does the computer run better that way? 

This message was edited by HBox on 3-14-07 @ 6:39 PM

Hottub

03-14-2007, 02:42 PM

I think the drive is crapping out. If you still have access to it, dump whatever you can to C or a CD or something.Time for a new HD.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:42 PM

HBox wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: Sorry, it says the file SYSTEM is RAW. I think the drive is either broken or it got completely formatted. If you are not seeing anything under capacity it's probably broken. Either way you're still fucked. Have you tried disconnecting the drive? Does the computer run better that way? This message was edited by HBox on 3-14-07 @ 6:39 PM You mean like physically removing from the computer?  Or can I actually just shut it down?How could this have happened?

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:44 PM

Hottub wrote: I think the drive is crapping out. If you still have access to it, dump whatever you can to C or a CD or something.Time for a new HD.Fuckfuckfuck.This thing isn't even 18 months old.

HBox

03-14-2007, 02:45 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: HBox wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: Sorry, it says the file SYSTEM is RAW. I think the drive is either broken or it got completely formatted. If you are not seeing anything under capacity it's probably broken. Either way you're still fucked. Have you tried disconnecting the drive? Does the computer run better that way? This message was edited by HBox on 3-14-07 @ 6:39 PM You mean like physically removing from the computer? Or can I actually just shut it down?How could this have happened?I mean shut the computer off, open it up and remove the plugs from the problem drive. You don't need to physically remove the drive, just pull out the two connectors. If the computer runs like normal when the drive is diconnected then it's highly likely that it's a hardware problem.As for how it could happen, hard drives just fail sometimes.

DoubleJ

03-14-2007, 02:51 PM

The computer is not recognizing that the volume (D) has been formatted. I have no idea why this would happen. If you don't have anything to recover from the drive, then you can try to reformat it. Although, it may be a problem in the future even if this does work. Right-click My Computer and select Manage. Expand Storage and select Disk Management. You will see a list of all volumes and their respective file systems. It will also tell you each one's status (e.g. healthy). You will be able to delete partitions and format drives from here.YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA ON THIS DRIVE IF YOU TAKE THIS COURSE OF ACTION. 

This message was edited by DoubleJ on 3-14-07 @ 6:53 PM

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 02:56 PM

Would a data recovery program do me any good at any point?

Wallower

03-14-2007, 03:05 PM

You can try drive maintenance programs like Spin Rite (bootable CD) or R-Studio (data recovery) but there's no garauntee you'll get your stuff back.Does the drive make any repetative clicking sounds? That's usually a really bad sign.If you're at the end of your rope and you've all ready written off the drive there are a couple of hardcore things you can try.1. Take the drive out and drop it about 2 inches straight down onto a flat surface. Plug it back in and copy off all the data you can.2.Take the drive out and put it in a ziplock bag. Leave it in the freezer for an hour or so. Plug it back in and copy off all the data you can.I've had some luck with these but I wouldn't tell your hard drive manufacturer when you send it in for RMA.

weekapaugjz

03-14-2007, 03:18 PM

MAYBE THE DINGO ATE YOUR D DRIVE!!!

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 03:25 PM

weekapaugjz wrote: MAYBE THE DINGO ATE YOUR D DRIVE!!! Nicely done.Man, this blows.

weekapaugjz

03-14-2007, 03:28 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: weekapaugjz wrote: MAYBE THE DINGO ATE YOUR D DRIVE!!! Nicely done.Man, this blows. i wish i could be more of a help.  i can run things on a computer but when it comes to fixing things, you may as well have a monkey with a hammer trying to fix a computer...

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 03:32 PM

weekapaugjz wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: weekapaugjz wrote: MAYBE THE DINGO ATE YOUR D DRIVE!!! Nicely done.Man, this blows. i wish i could be more of a help.  i can run things on a computer but when it comes to fixing things, you may as well have a monkey with a hammer trying to fix a computer... Same here.  I know so little about this kind of shit, though what I can understand out of what I've tracked down elsewhere, I do seemed to be royally fucked.

feralBoy

03-14-2007, 03:36 PM

You should find out what brand of drive you have, and go to the website for that company.  They will have a downloadable boot-disk, or program that you can run.  You would run this on start-up, so this way it is not in windows.  This would give you the most specific information what is wrong with your hard drive.  You can also try running scandisk is you can.  Also, with the computer off, make sure all the cables are plugged into your drive correctly.  They may have gotten loose.  In all likelyhood, your drive has some physical problem wrong with it.  But the utilities will help you recover you information, and maybe even fix the problem.

OGC

03-14-2007, 04:25 PM

Is your d drive just a data drive or are there programs installed on it? If it is just used for storage, I too would suggest powering down the computer, opening it up and disconnecting the 2 cables to see if things return to normal.If that does it, you might be able to install that hard drive in an external hard drive case and connect it via the usb so that you can copy stuff off of it.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 04:49 PM

I just use it for data...music and porn and various things I've written over the years (most of the third group I have backed up elsewhere, thankfully), so no programs.Is unplugging the hard drive going to wipe everything?  I'm basically resigning myself to the idea of losing it all, but if there's a chance I won't, I want to try that way first.And here's another n00b question...I've had this comp about a year or so, and I've never opened it.  How do I know what's the 2nd HD?

bobrobot

03-14-2007, 04:49 PM

I live so far out in the country, when my D drive breaks it says, "inacessable due to to an E I E I/O error"<img src="http://www.musicroom.com/images/catalogue/productpage/CH65395.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="286" />

crb1

03-14-2007, 05:07 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: I just use it for data...music and porn and various things I've written over the years (most of the third group I have backed up elsewhere, thankfully), so no programs.Is unplugging the hard drive going to wipe everything? I'm basically resigning myself to the idea of losing it all, but if there's a chance I won't, I want to try that way first.And here's another n00b question...I've had this comp about a year or so, and I've never opened it. How do I know what's the 2nd HD?No, unplugging the drive won't erase any information stored on the disk. It's written to the disk, so don't worry about it.Are you sure that your D drive is actually a 2nd physical drive, and not just a partition on your main hard drive? If you crack open the computer and only see one hard drive, it's a partition.

MadMatt

03-14-2007, 05:07 PM

What is the make and model of your PC?  Depending on where you got it, their site should be able to provide schematics, or at least code numbers, for which drive is which.  All you will need is a Service Tag or Serial number for your PC.Also, does your PC have a diagnostic mode/partition?  On startup hit F12 for a boot menu - hopefully Diagnostics will be one of the choices.There is more I can tell you once I know the M&M, but for my money I would bet that your drive is going/gone.  However, as someone mentioned before, you may be able to get an external drive hookup and retrieve some of your data.  I do it all the time.  You can get them for $25-$30 at places like tigerdirect.com.

MadMatt

03-14-2007, 05:11 PM

crb1 wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: I just use it for data...music and porn and various things I've written over the years (most of the third group I have backed up elsewhere, thankfully), so no programs.Is unplugging the hard drive going to wipe everything? I'm basically resigning myself to the idea of losing it all, but if there's a chance I won't, I want to try that way first.And here's another n00b question...I've had this comp about a year or so, and I've never opened it. How do I know what's the 2nd HD?No, unplugging the drive won't erase any information stored on the disk. It's written to the disk, so don't worry about it.Are you sure that your D drive is actually a 2nd physical drive, and not just a partition on your main hard drive? If you crack open the computer and only see one hard drive, it's a partition. crb is right, but you don't have to open the PC to find this out.  As someone else mentioned, right click on your "My Computer" icon and choose "Manage" - when the management console opens go to "Disk Management" in the "Storage" section.  Let us know what it says there.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 06:18 PM

MadMatt wrote: crb1 wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: I just use it for data...music and porn and various things I've written over the years (most of the third group I have backed up elsewhere, thankfully), so no programs.Is unplugging the hard drive going to wipe everything? I'm basically resigning myself to the idea of losing it all, but if there's a chance I won't, I want to try that way first.And here's another n00b question...I've had this comp about a year or so, and I've never opened it. How do I know what's the 2nd HD?No, unplugging the drive won't erase any information stored on the disk. It's written to the disk, so don't worry about it.Are you sure that your D drive is actually a 2nd physical drive, and not just a partition on your main hard drive? If you crack open the computer and only see one hard drive, it's a partition. crb is right, but you don't have to open the PC to find this out.  As someone else mentioned, right click on your "My Computer" icon and choose "Manage" - when the management console opens go to "Disk Management" in the "Storage" section.  Let us know what it says there.I appreciate the help, Matt.  I have a Dell XPS.  When I go into the storage section of disk management. it does list everything as "partition."  The first two volumes aren't labelled.  The first is 39 MB and its status is "Healthy (EISA Configuration)" and it's file system is "FAT."  The second is file system "FAT32" and its status is "Healthy (Unknown partition)" and it's 2.96 gigs.  The third is my C drive...its file system is "NTFS" and its status is "Healthy (System)."  D is blank under its file system, though its status is also healthy.

JustJon

03-14-2007, 06:29 PM

turn off computer. disconnect wires from drive.disconnect wires from cd drives.  put hard drive in place of better working cd drive.turn on computer. If that doesn't work, put it all back and call Dell.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 06:40 PM

Partition drive, my friend.  I can't do that.

zentraed

03-14-2007, 08:45 PM

you need to download a SMART utility (System Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). Your hard drive performs diagnostics on itself and will tell you what's wrong. Any smart utility will work, so just to a hard drive manufacturers website and download one (western digital, seagate, etc.). Something happened to destroy your partition table. A program like EasyRecovery may be able to restore some of your data if you had something really important on there, otherwise, you'll probably just want to get a warranty replacement.When a disk drive isn't working, windows will basically stop in its tracks and keep trying to access the disk. You can disable the drive in your BIOS at startup, or in Device Manager in windows to speed things up again.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 08:54 PM

Here's a screen shot of my disk manager:http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f19/TheMojoPin/disk.jpgI downloaded one of those SMART deals, something called DiskView...it works fine with C, but it can't access or read D at all just like everything else.

HBox

03-14-2007, 09:01 PM

The D: Drive is a separate hard drive and not a partition. I'm guessing its broken if it's still slowing your computer down. If you disconnect it and you computer is still running sluggish then it's beyond me.As for which drive is the second one I'll just go by chance and guess that it's the one that's lower in the tower. But if it's turns out to be the first one don't worry. You can reconnect it and nothing will be hurt.Or if you don't feel comfortable messing around in there call Dell. If it's only 18 months old the hard drive should still be under warranty. They are supposed to last much longer than that.

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 09:05 PM

I'm just being incredibly lazy.  My computer desk is one of those that you basically build around the computer, so it's a bitch and a half to get the tower out, especially these honking XPS computers.  Guess I don't have a choice at this point...I just wish I could disable the D drive in the meantime.  It's not letting me select the option to do that anywhere I usually can.

zentraed

03-14-2007, 09:15 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: I'm just being incredibly lazy. My computer desk is one of those that you basically build around the computer, so it's a bitch and a half to get the tower out, especially these honking XPS computers. Guess I don't have a choice at this point...I just wish I could disable the D drive in the meantime. It's not letting me select the option to do that anywhere I usually can.I would definitely try unplugging and reconnecting the data cable to that drive. Did you try disabling the drive or its controller in Device Manager?

TheMojoPin

03-14-2007, 09:41 PM

It won't give the option to disable it anywhere like I can with the C drive.  The only option I have along those lines is uninstalling it.

JustJon

03-15-2007, 09:27 AM

1-800-DELL

Reephdweller

03-15-2007, 09:46 AM

Sounds like the drive is dead.

MadMatt

03-15-2007, 03:06 PM

It's showing that the D:drive is 100% free - that could be good or bad.Good:  Something messed up with the connection to the drive - the cable went bad, something else corrupted the connection, etc.  Try going to Device Manager - "Name of" your D: - Driver Tab - Uninstall.  Then reboot after it's done.  If the system recognizes your "new" hardware, reloads it, and you can access the data on it, then problem solved.  If it doesn't see the drive, you'll have to operate - open up the machine, pull the cables, hook them back up and see what's what.  You may want to pick up another cable just in case (thery are cheap and you'll have the machine open anyway).Bad:  Your drive "took a hit" and is now Fracked.  Like the deaths of Moms and Dogs, sometimes it just happens.  Your best option for recovering data then is to use the external drive hardware mentioned previously.That's my 2 cents for now, but I will try to "stop in" later.  Have to go feed my daughter now.  <img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/happy.gif" border="0" width="20" height="20" />

TheMojoPin

03-15-2007, 06:27 PM

I appreciate the help, Matt.I've tried twice now to uninstall the drive.  When I select that, it says it needs to reboot the system so I click "OK" and it does...sadly, nothing has changed when it starts back up again, so it looks like I'll be attempting computer surgery tomorrow.Keep your fingers crossed!

SatCam

03-16-2007, 05:28 AM

Prediction

YOU ARE FUCKED

ralphbxny

03-16-2007, 05:44 AM

Thread psycic Thread Psycic SatCam wrote: Prediction YOU ARE FUCKED

TheMojoPin

03-16-2007, 12:13 PM

OK, one last quesiton before I crack this open...the one function on C that is realllllllly slow all the time is when I'm deleting files (nothing goes to the recycling bin, it all just deletes right away).  I noticed the porblems with D the other night when I was deleting something off of it and it took a noticeably long time to delete...then after that all these problems started.  Could it have something specifically to do with the delete function or the recycling bin?

Death Metal Moe

03-16-2007, 12:38 PM

I'd rather have an I/O error than an EO error.<img src="http://www.mmjworld.de/galerie/michael/thriller/85_00_00_captain_eo/images/85_00_00_captain_eo_51.jpg" border="0" width="610" height="393" />

ralphbxny

03-16-2007, 12:40 PM

I once had a problem with my D but it was an over use of alcohol and drugs!

TheMojoPin

03-16-2007, 01:13 PM

Now WMP is attempting to nonstop install URGE whenever I play anything...yeah, I know, it's WMP...point is, I specifcally avoided activating URGE and now it's out of nowhere trying to install.  I hit "cancel" and it just tries it again and again as long as WMP is open...I reinstall WMP without URGE, same thing  I try to remove URGE and the add/remove programs option can't pull up a list of the programs on my computer.This thing is fuuuuuuuuuuuucked.

TheMojoPin

03-16-2007, 01:31 PM

Alright, got URGE removed...fuckin' MTV.

KC2OSO

03-16-2007, 01:43 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: Now WMP is attempting to nonstop install URGE whenever I play anything...yeah, I know, it's WMP...point is, I specifcally avoided activating URGE and now it's out of nowhere trying to install. I hit "cancel" and it just tries it again and again as long as WMP is open...I reinstall WMP without URGE, same thing I try to remove URGE and the add/remove programs option can't pull up a list of the programs on my computer.This thing is fuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Sure does sound like it. Sorry man. Got another XP box lying around?  Depending how much you want what's on the drive, it might be worth trying to set it up as a slave or cable select drive to the master of that second box's drive.  Long as the master drive has up to date AV and anti spyware, you may be able to grab what you need off the drive without polluting the second drive as well.

TheMojoPin

03-16-2007, 05:46 PM

Well, it's fixed...but I lost everything on that drive.  Nothing essential, but still, kinda sucks.Ended up calling Dell and found out my warranty is good through this December, so luckily if I needed it replaced I would have been covered.  My Indian friend "Frank" was awesome...dude didn't ask any stupid questions and understood everything I was talking about.  He guided me through opening the thing up and checking the physical connections for the hard drives.  I cleaned them out and made sure they were secure but that unfortunately that didn't do anything.  Frank ended up connecting directly to my computer, which was both cool and terrifying.  He walked me through everything and ended up reformatting the drive and setting up a new partition that got it going...everything was gone, but hey, it works fine.  Like some had said, some kind of random data corruption had happened at some point when I was trying to delete and transfer a bunch of files.  Oh well...at least our long national nightmare is finally over.