2

I made a clean reinstall of my computer yesterday after I seemed to have hard-drive problems. Now it seems they have returned. My computer freezes for a few seconds every few minutes. I checked the Event log and discovered there was a surge of errors with the following characteristics:

  • Level: Error
  • Source: atapi
  • "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0."
  • Binary Data:
    0000: 00100000 00000001 00000000 C004000B
    0008: 00000004 C0000185 00000000 00000000
    0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
    0018: 00000000 00001005

How can I diagnose the problem?
I suspect my 1.5TB drive, but how can I confirm it? Currently I have 2 hard drives in my desktop - one is a brand new SSD and the other is the 1.5TB Western Digital "green" drive.

UPDATES

  • I don't want to diagnose only which hard drive causes the problem, but also if it's a hard-drive problem, cable problem or chipset problem.
Jonathan
  • 3,839

1 Answers1

1

Disconnect the one hard drive you can and see if the errors stop. If they don't its the one plugged in, if they do its the one you unplugged.

.

Moab
  • 58,769