Seagate Sata Problems?

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Project
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Seagate Sata Problems?

Post by Project » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:34 pm

i got a 200gb serial ata seagate hd, and whenever i try to defrag it, it will freeze up in windows. I notice that most of my hds have "file system" errors, so i doubt that its that problem, other than that, the os and everything is fine. Its just when i want to defrag. Also when i try to chkdsk, it would hang up, is this a driver issue or a humongous size hd issue?
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Slaugh
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Post by Slaugh » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:22 pm

Do you have at least service pack 1 installed? All drives more than 137GB need a new ATAPI driver for 48bit LBA support in Windows XP. This driver comes with SP1 and SP2. See there.
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Project
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Post by Project » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:14 pm

yea i do have sp1 and sp2
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jldet5
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Re: Seagate Sata Problems?

Post by jldet5 » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:19 pm

Project wrote:i got a 200gb serial ata seagate hd, and whenever i try to defrag it, it will freeze up in windows. I notice that most of my hds have "file system" errors, so i doubt that its that problem, other than that, the os and everything is fine. Its just when i want to defrag. Also when i try to chkdsk, it would hang up, is this a driver issue or a humongous size hd issue?
For chkdsk try cleaning the temp directories.

I have had this happen once before on my 120G which was severely fragged. Try diskeeper 8.0 for the dfrag.
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