Weird System CRASH...never would have guessed

[akenis]

Hey guys,

Had just upgraded all my sage to the latest a couple of weeks ago..everything was humming along. Then a couple of stutters, and pauses, and later a big freeze during video play back. Hard Reset.

Windows keeps trying to fix stuff on my secondary drive..verification checks etc, and the freezes. Reboot.

Press any key to skip the disk check....ok I'm into windows, but it's painfully slow, unusably slow. Try boot into safemode. System hangs up.

Windows CD and a shot for Recovery Console...won't run.

Windows CD and repair instalation. Painfully slow and finally boots up, but unusably slow.

Pull all the cards...same thing.

Disconnect my secondary G: drive and Voilla! I get my system back.

1. How can a secondary drive failure bring down the whole system?

2. Disconnect, my C: and reconnect the bad drive. Pop in my UBCD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and Seagate Seatools finds all kinds of problems. Seatools freezes when trying to overwrite bad sectors. There's a bunch of Disk Tools on the CD, but I'm unfamiliar with them. Anyone have luck with these disk tools from the UBCD:

Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0 Demo version
MHDD32 4.6
ViVARD 0.4
HDAT2

3. I don't understand how Sage treats the absence of the G: drive. It lists the videos, and then says they're unavailable (w/ MC they just don't play). What happens if I tell sage the G: drive isn't in the library for now, and later recover the videos from the G: drive and re-enable G: to the library? Will Sage know they're there? Can I just copy the recovered videos to the other Sage library on D: ?

4. How can I hook up a new internal drive in my system, so I can transfer vids off the G: drive?

My goal is to get what I can off the the fried drive and then let sage have it back if it will take it. Will I have to import them?

Thanks alot for any expert advise. This problem and the whole DST make me look like an idiot!

[akenis]

...found this thread...http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...4&postcount=10