Problem with HDD IDE PATA WD80GB. System works ok, but often checks disk at boot, even when previous shutdown was OK.

I have checked HDD on PC with MHDD (4.5) and NO errors or suspicious areas were found.

After that, I have tried to clone it with GHOST, which didn't alowed me to continue, since it reported some HDD error at head X, sector Y, etc.

I moved HDD to another PC and GHOST worked fine (also MHDD).

So, I tried to change UATA IDE cable on original PC. And that was the solution of problem. I've tried again with bad cable, to verify the problem, and again GHOST showed error on HDD.

So, I'm asking myself, WHY THE HELL MHDD DIDN'T REPORT some error when it was accessing HDD, and GHOST DID???!!!

I doubt that GHOST is better software for checking HDD consistency, but in my case it seemd like that!

Any comments are welcome

set hdd detect auto in bios.

DF

Of course that HDD is AUTODETECTed in BIOS.

I'm not asking for solution to my problem, since I've solved it myself, but
I want comment to MHDD & Ghost behaviours.

It could be a timing issue. For some reason, MHDD could be accessing the disk in a slower mode than Ghost, thus less prone to errors caused by cable defects.

It's also possible that there was a slight surface defect that MHDD could deal with, but not Ghost.

I found once a WD disk with surface defects that could be formated with fat32 but not NTFS. Go figger.

Daniel