dELTA
March 13th, 2005, 10:03
It seems like one of my harddisks is about to give up on me.
A couple of days ago I noticed the following eventlog messages when starting Windows:
and
First of all, I'm not sure about which physical harddisk it is referring to? (I have three harddisks in this computer) This is of course the first thing I'd like to make clear, to be able to switch it if it's broken.
In the message above it mentions "\Device\Harddisk2\D". Does anyone know how to positively match this to one of my physical disks? One thing that confuses me a lot is that it has a "D" on the end, which one would think would indicate that it is the "D" partition on my IDE primary master disk, but it also says "Harddisk2", which is not the disk number that this disk has in the "Disk manager" in Windows?!
So, first question: How can I know which physical disk "\Device\Harddisk2\D" is referring to?
Today when I started the computer, I got the following messages instead:
and
I'm starting to get really shaky here, and would like to pinpoint this problem as soon as possible.
I'm starting to believe it might be more than a harddisk error, maybe some motherboard/IDE controller issue? I haven't noticed any operating system malfunction, or any other problem using the computer, which also feels a bit strange if there is some such serious problem with the Windows boot drive disk. (although it might of course take time before such errors are noticed or have any effect too)
Based on the info above, does anyone have any idea about what it might be, or how to analyze it further?
Also, finally, I've only gotten all these eventlog messages immediately on computer startup this far, and then nothing else during the entire days when using the computer, any idea about why that might be?
I'd really appreciate any and all input about this, as soon as possible.

Quote:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\D. (sent by the source "Disk" to the "System" eventlog) (about 5-10 times) |
Quote:
A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort1. (sent by the source "atapi" to the "System" eventlog) |
First of all, I'm not sure about which physical harddisk it is referring to? (I have three harddisks in this computer) This is of course the first thing I'd like to make clear, to be able to switch it if it's broken.
In the message above it mentions "\Device\Harddisk2\D". Does anyone know how to positively match this to one of my physical disks? One thing that confuses me a lot is that it has a "D" on the end, which one would think would indicate that it is the "D" partition on my IDE primary master disk, but it also says "Harddisk2", which is not the disk number that this disk has in the "Disk manager" in Windows?!
So, first question: How can I know which physical disk "\Device\Harddisk2\D" is referring to?
Today when I started the computer, I got the following messages instead:
Quote:
Failed to obtain the front-panel ID or serial number. (sent by the source "MaxtorFrontPanel1" to the "System" eventlog) |
Quote:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur. (sent by the source "Ftdisk" to the "System" eventlog) |
I'm starting to get really shaky here, and would like to pinpoint this problem as soon as possible.

Based on the info above, does anyone have any idea about what it might be, or how to analyze it further?
Also, finally, I've only gotten all these eventlog messages immediately on computer startup this far, and then nothing else during the entire days when using the computer, any idea about why that might be?
I'd really appreciate any and all input about this, as soon as possible.
