Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

A little help from those with more knowledge than me...

I have the following drives in my computer:

C - System disk, 74GB
F - Storage, 1TB
G - Storage, 1TB
H - Storage, 750GB
I - Storage, 2TB

All was well until recently drive F became unreadable, it began with the occasional chirp during playback of audio files stored on the drive, or the occasional glitch when playing back video, then after a few days I rebooted and Windows will not access the volume, when you double click on the drive letter in "My Computer" it gives the error:

"F:\ is not accessible

The parameter is incorrect"

The physical drive spins up fine and Speedfan can read it's S.M.A.R.T details, which are supposedly fine

Drive contains all my media, not irreplaceable but time consuming and very annoying to recreate as it was almost full

Recuva finds a load of files, I think all of them, and I'm in the process of recovering as much as possible to the new 2TB drive before trying to fix F, but it would be nice if it was something simple like a corrupted file table that could be rebuilt and save me sifting through 50,000+ files manually to recreate their folder structure...

Any ideas? Computer is Windows 7 and all drives are NTFS format with a single partition on each drive

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

Is it a Dell?

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

No, built myself a couple of years back, can give you a component list if it'll help?

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

its buggered

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

the chirp is usually the bearings going south at which point the head usually crashes onto the platter causing the drive to be unreadable.

or it could just be a loose cable somewhere, or your powersupply getting a bit tired.

have you tried plugging it into another port to see if its the port or power?

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

The chirp is in the audio being played back, not coming from the drive... Nothing to indicate the drive itself is failing, had several do that before so know what to look for...

Not tried a different SATA port yet, considering the drive is responding just fine to recovery software it makes me think the problem isn't hardware

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

could be windows playing funny burger (wouldn't be the first time) as said try another port or a usb enclosure.

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

I would pull it out the machine and try it on a external unit on different machine.
It does sound like the drive is starting to fail catastrophically replacement is recommended

I'm guessing your set up of drives is:
C: OS
D: CD Drive
then F-I as you've described

when did you put it up to 7 spec as 7 is just as bad as vista for being temperamental.

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

That's a lot o' porn!

Does the bios see the drive fine?

Re: Help!! I are not good with computer...
 

Yep...

Drive appears in BIOS and My Computer, just isn't accessible

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/r...misc/comp1.png

ETA: pr0nz not on this drive;) - Only Music/Films/TV and My Documents, thankfully they're backed up to another drive nightly...