a request to this de device has been cancelled

F5ing said:

It mentions RAID in both my link and yours. Do you have the manual for the board?

ok attached is the raid configuration for this motherboard i believe..

i know i am the one who should read it, but i have never dealt with raid, (worst, i don,t even know exactly what it is) so here it is in case you are interested..
thanks

It would be best if you could attach the whole manual if you could. I see where you would go to check the health of a RAID array, but not for the individual disks.

It also mentions something about Nvidia RAID software; you might check the Windows start menu to see if you've got something like that.

If you watch the flash of screens when you boot, do you see an extra screen flash by where you see RAID mentioned, before you see Windows starting?

Also, it may be beneficial if you could post some screenshots of your current BIOS screens. If you do this, you might want to disconnect that troublesome disk so that extra chkdsks can't run on it (although I think you would have the chance to cancel it if it did try, as there is usually a timeout period for about 10 seconds where you can press a key to skip the check).

And think about getting an extra drive for backups!

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F5ing said:

It would be best if you could attach the whole manual if you could. I see where you would go to check the health of a RAID array, but not for the individual disks.

attached

It also mentions something about Nvidia RAID software; you might check the Windows start menu to see if you've got something like that.

no such software

If you watch the flash of screens when you boot, do you see an extra screen flash by where you see RAID mentioned, before you see Windows starting?

nothing

Also, it may be beneficial if you could post some screenshots of your current BIOS screens. If you do this, you might want to disconnect that troublesome disk so that extra chkdsks can't run on it (although I think you would have the chance to cancel it if it did try, as there is usually a timeout period for about 10 seconds where you can press a key to skip the check).

i will do bt its hard to setup a camera right now

And think about getting an extra drive for backups!

yes i need a good cheap 2tb drive for backups

thankss yesterday i gave up and went to bed

That manual appears to be incomplete as well. Also appears it references a different BIOS manufacturer. Did you get multiple manuals for your board?

Are you overclocking? If so, you might want to disable that feature, at least until you get this resolved.

F5ing said:

That manual appears to be incomplete as well. Also appears it references a different BIOS manufacturer. Did you get multiple manuals for your board?

Are you overclocking? If so, you might want to disable that feature, at least until you get this resolved.

nop just that manual, I am not overclocking...

today got rid of unnecessary data on a FW hdd i have and tried backing up the problematic hdd but it was way slow, it was gonna take like 3 days or something..
so right now i cannot even backup the data even tough I have like a very slow response from that drive when i navigate in the folders..

Also event viewer is just saying "a request to this device........................" manny times

thanks, I am pretty sure the drive is good... it must be something chkdsk is not able to resolve..

Also when I connected the FW and ran WD lifeguard to write some zeros on it, I saw that SMART was available for the FW drive...

Thanks

amoretam said:

today got rid of unnecessary data on a FW hdd i have and tried backing up the problematic hdd but it was way slow, it was gonna take like 3 days or something..
so right now i cannot even backup the data even tough I have like a very slow response from that drive when i navigate in the folders..

Also event viewer is just saying "a request to this device........................" manny times

thanks, I am pretty sure the drive is good... it must be something chkdsk is not able to resolve..

Also when I connected the FW and ran WD lifeguard to write some zeros on it, I saw that SMART was available for the FW drive...

Thanks

FW = firewire?

I couldn't be sure whether the slow response is an issue with the filesystem (chkdsk) or the drive itself. As long as you currently have access to the drive it might be a good idea to go ahead and clone or image it. Easier to do now as you've cleared out some space on another drive.

When you clone it ignores the filesystem (ignores chkdsk issues) and just copies byte by byte, not caring about 'files'. So if it's slow during a clone operation you could then point to a drive issue over a file system (chkdsk) issue.

F5ing said:

amoretam said:

today got rid of unnecessary data on a FW hdd i have and tried backing up the problematic hdd but it was way slow, it was gonna take like 3 days or something..
so right now i cannot even backup the data even tough I have like a very slow response from that drive when i navigate in the folders..

Also event viewer is just saying "a request to this device........................" manny times

thanks, I am pretty sure the drive is good... it must be something chkdsk is not able to resolve..

Also when I connected the FW and ran WD lifeguard to write some zeros on it, I saw that SMART was available for the FW drive...

Thanks

FW = firewire?

I couldn't be sure whether the slow response is an issue with the filesystem (chkdsk) or the drive itself. As long as you currently have access to the drive it might be a good idea to go ahead and clone or image it. Easier to do now as you've cleared out some space on another drive.

When you clone it ignores the filesystem (ignores chkdsk issues) and just copies byte by byte, not caring about 'files'. So if it's slow during a clone operation you could then point to a drive issue over a file system (chkdsk) issue.

......Now
I can't even have acceess to the drive. Yesterday I tried to do a backup to the FW (firewire) disk booting with Hiren's bood cd, but the drive would make this clocking (clicking) sound and the procedure froze up.


i want to at least be able to extract my data (back it up) and then write some zeros to the drive so I can start over.

I will try today again but I don't know about this clicking sound the drive makes.....

thanks

an update.........chkdsk ran automatically while booting this time correcting MTF and booted fine and no slow response.

Right now I am copying files (backing up) to my external FW drive.
Speed was good (like 85MB/second) but right now (like 5 minutes later) is at 18.8MB/seconds.

I will let it copy (even if it takes 2 days) because i really need my data. Once it copies I am planning to run WD Lifeguard to write zeros to the drive and start over. Do you think that would correct any issues??

thanks alot

TVeblen said:

Writing all zeros will give you a nice clean drive and a brand new file table, and that will certainly correct any file formatting problems. If that does not correct the problem and make the drive usable at least it will eliminate that as a possible cause.

But wiping the drive will not correct any mechanical problem. If the drive is failing because the heads will not park or align then it will be time to put the drive to rest.

ok thanks

transfer speed is now 17MB/seconds..

At that speed I believe is gonna take like 34 hours (remember is 907gb of data).

Do you think it is healthy to let these 2 hdd's transfer my data for so long?