At around 5:00 PM this evening, my new rig randomly rebooted and I got the dreaded “disk error: press any key to restart” error. Of course I went through this a dozen times just to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. Mind you this drive is less than 2 weeks old with a brand new install of WinXP. I booted into the recovery console and ran chkdsk /R; spun for a good 30 minutes and then it booted fine, though it didn’t mention any corruption issues. Scanning through the Event Log, I have a good 20 or so “The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D” errors, clicking the support link actually took me somewhere with info (first time ever) which stated the following:
Explanation
This problem is typically caused by a failing cable that connects the drive to the computer.
User Action
Replace the cable.
So it looks like my drive shipped with a faulty SATA cable. Seagate will be getting a piece of my mind very shortly via email. Whatever.
Posted
May 29 2005, 06:28 PM
by
Jayson Knight