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[jnelsoninjax]

BudMan, on 27 March 2012 - 21:22, said:

What kind of connection is this drive using? Is this USB external drive? PATA/SATA/ESATA?

If you sure you have a good connection and drive is passing tests, and your getting access denied problems - I would look to the permissions as your problem vs a hardware issue.

So you ran the drive through the makers long test, and reports good? And smart is showing no problems? Sure just was not a connection problem/power problem? What is your power supply and how many things do you have added to this machine?

I see issues quite often when connecting disks externally with my 2.5/3.5/sata/pata cable if the connection is off or power up didn't go just right where windows sees the disk but says its initialized, etc.. Redo the connection and good to go.

It is internal SATA, PSU is a 700W running 3 HDD's and a Optical Drive, I have an aux power supply for my GPU

[cybertimber2008]

I'm going to 2nd what many people said. Backup the data on that drive and do a full, fresh format on the drive. There is some sort of problem and since SMART is reporting nothing, it could be the board on the hard drive.

[+BudMan]

If internal sata, seems odd that would be connection problem - with that size psu unlikely that a power problem. Did it happen after a reboot or coming back from hibernate or standby. Or just out of the blue?

It is always a GOOD IDEA to have backup - and for sure always have backup of your critical files, etc. Which should be normal operation, not something should be doing because you feel your hdd might die soon. I couldn't hurt to take a backup of files you normally don't if that is the case if you feel something funky with the drive.

But if all the tests show good -- and happened upon boot or return from standby/hibernation it could be just a odd/rare fluke. Here's the thing if it passes all tests from makers tools, and not showing any smart issues then its not going to be possible to rma, etc. So what your not going to use the drive any more? Because of one fluke weirdness? That seems like a shame - if you don't want to use it anymore, you could send it my way hehehe I will be happy to use the space.

Like I said you should always have critical files backed up anyway.. So its going to be just like any other drive - which any drive could just die tmrw without any warning. You always hope for warning signs, smart notification, etc. But any HDD could just give out any minute so because you have one weird issue with it does not mean its no longer a viable resource for storage.

Make sure you run the FULL LONG test from the makers tools - if that fails then you should be able to return for replacement, if still under warranty.

[jnelsoninjax]

There is nothing of any real importance on the drive, so the few items I feel that I need , I have backed up. As for when it happens, I only noticed it one time about 2 days ago when attempting to download to the drive, I kept getting errors and when I ran chkdsk it refused to run stating that it was RAW file system, but since then I only have had one issue, and that was when trying to copy something to the drive from another drive and I am meet with access denied message, but I have taken ownership, and checked sharing for the whole drive, but it is only on 2 files that this error is happening, I have checked with IOBIT unlocker and it informs me that nothing is locking the files... I was able to move the files using unlocker.

[+BudMan]

Dude you sure you want to keep using it -- if your worried you can send it to me, and I will test it out for a year or 2 to see how its behaves

[jnelsoninjax]

^Thanks BudMan, I think I'll keep it and 'test' it myself!