2 Drives Died At Same Time

Paft · 12-16-2012, 02:39 PM

Everything was working fine last night. I shutdown and went to bed. Woke up today and only 1 of 3 drives showed up. My SDD is dead and a 1tb HDD.

I have a drive dock and they're not showing up on the laptop.

WTF is this shit?

Anshinritsumai · 12-16-2012, 08:21 PM

Not 100% sure if your problem is the same as mine, but doesn't hurt to try, as it sounds similar...

My WD Elements 1TB external HDD "died" a few times now and it turns out that everytime, the drive was perfectly fine, but Windows somehow lost it. And like you, it would always happen after a restart or something and the drive would be missing or windows would find the drive but think of it as empty and needing formatting.

Either way, it ended up happening because the MFT / boot sector of the drive somehow got corrupted and now Windows can't read it. All the files were still there and recoverable, but no matter what I did to try to repair the MFT or bootsector, Windows wouldn't read it. After recovering the files I wanted, I just reformatted the drive fresh and it was working perfectly fine again.

Edit:
To recover files, I used this: TestDisk.

It also has an option to try to fix the MFT/bootsector by using the backup MFT/bootsector, but if both are corrupted/damaged then you have to reformat.

Innoc · 12-17-2012, 02:27 AM

Western Digital used to be my go to....but in recent years that view has changed. To have two drives fail like that I'd be very suspicious of a common component. Were these by any chance on the same power chain from the power supply?

Paft · 12-17-2012, 08:30 PM

I've jumped on an old laptop HDD for the time being. The SSD is dead. Well, it isn't showing up in my dock on my system or laptops.

Oddly the 1tb HDD is working again. It wasn't showing up in the doc at first but then did when I turned it off/on a few times. Seems fine atm. Don't know what is going on there.

The SSD is under warranty so I'll see that it gets replaced.

Confused...........
edit: No, they wasn't on the same power chain. Thanks for the responses.

Innoc · 12-17-2012, 09:26 PM

Ugh...ssd. I missed that in your first post. I thought you deliberately wrote sdd to mean something like second disk drive. Yeah...so the key with ssd is backup as you should assume you will get zero warning of failure and little chance to recover.

Still two drives would make me suspicious of a power supply that's going to attack your wallet....

Paft · 12-18-2012, 12:02 AM

I normally have a backup but since I moved to 8 I had not got round to setting up Win backup. Luckily all I've lost is what was on my desktop.

Although the HDD seems to be working again just fine (I have put it back in my system and have rebooted twice), that has scared and confused me now.

edit: If you are interested the SSD is:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-ver...i-2-5-ssd.html 60GB

12-16-2012, 02:39 PM	#1
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	2 Drives Died At Same Time Everything was working fine last night. I shutdown and went to bed. Woke up today and only 1 of 3 drives showed up. My SDD is dead and a 1tb HDD. I have a drive dock and they're not showing up on the laptop. WTF is this shit? __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

12-16-2012, 08:21 PM	#2
Anshinritsumai °_o Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: 127.0.0.1 Class/Position: Medic & Engy Gametype: AvD Affiliations: DM, OC, -[CfH]- Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Not 100% sure if your problem is the same as mine, but doesn't hurt to try, as it sounds similar... My WD Elements 1TB external HDD "died" a few times now and it turns out that everytime, the drive was perfectly fine, but Windows somehow lost it. And like you, it would always happen after a restart or something and the drive would be missing or windows would find the drive but think of it as empty and needing formatting. Either way, it ended up happening because the MFT / boot sector of the drive somehow got corrupted and now Windows can't read it. All the files were still there and recoverable, but no matter what I did to try to repair the MFT or bootsector, Windows wouldn't read it. After recovering the files I wanted, I just reformatted the drive fresh and it was working perfectly fine again. Edit: To recover files, I used this: TestDisk. It also has an option to try to fix the MFT/bootsector by using the backup MFT/bootsector, but if both are corrupted/damaged then you have to reformat. __________________ Steam \| Xfire \| Twitter \| Last.FM \| Anime \| DevART Last edited by Anshinritsumai; 12-16-2012 at 08:31 PM.

12-17-2012, 02:27 AM	#3
Innoc Hitman 2 1 Actual Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: "Oscar Mike" Gametype: FPS or RTS (just say NO to MMO) Affiliations: Your Mom Posts Rated Helpful 8 Times	Western Digital used to be my go to....but in recent years that view has changed. To have two drives fail like that I'd be very suspicious of a common component. Were these by any chance on the same power chain from the power supply? __________________ Mooga on Obama: He can cut taxes. Actually do something useful. Punch Nancy Pelosi in the face. Just to name a few. You eventually run out of other people's money to spend.

12-17-2012, 08:30 PM	#4
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Strangeness I've jumped on an old laptop HDD for the time being. The SSD is dead. Well, it isn't showing up in my dock on my system or laptops. Oddly the 1tb HDD is working again. It wasn't showing up in the doc at first but then did when I turned it off/on a few times. Seems fine atm. Don't know what is going on there. The SSD is under warranty so I'll see that it gets replaced. Confused........... edit: No, they wasn't on the same power chain. Thanks for the responses. __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012 Last edited by Paft; 12-17-2012 at 08:31 PM.

12-17-2012, 09:26 PM	#5
Innoc Hitman 2 1 Actual Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: "Oscar Mike" Gametype: FPS or RTS (just say NO to MMO) Affiliations: Your Mom Posts Rated Helpful 8 Times	Ugh...ssd. I missed that in your first post. I thought you deliberately wrote sdd to mean something like second disk drive. Yeah...so the key with ssd is backup as you should assume you will get zero warning of failure and little chance to recover. Still two drives would make me suspicious of a power supply that's going to attack your wallet.... __________________ Mooga on Obama: He can cut taxes. Actually do something useful. Punch Nancy Pelosi in the face. Just to name a few. You eventually run out of other people's money to spend.

12-18-2012, 12:02 AM	#6
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	I normally have a backup but since I moved to 8 I had not got round to setting up Win backup. Luckily all I've lost is what was on my desktop. Although the HDD seems to be working again just fine (I have put it back in my system and have rebooted twice), that has scared and confused me now. edit: If you are interested the SSD is: http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-ver...i-2-5-ssd.html 60GB __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012 Last edited by Paft; 12-18-2012 at 02:34 AM. Reason: but

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