What's the problem? HD?

[igornt]

Hey, all! I have been trying to encode a 1-hour video using CCE and a Avisynth. Apparently after 3-4 hours of encoding, the system crashes saying something like "Unable to save to /harddrive/volume3. Please, try to save to a different path. Probably a problem with your hardware or network." I first thought that it is a problem with overheating of my HD, and I put a big fan right near the hd. Does not help. The HD that I use is IBM and I bought it only a couple of months ago. Besides, I can work with the files on it, so it is not absolutely dead. Or am I wrong? Thanks for help!

[stanwebber]

unless you ran out of free space, i'd run the drive's SMART self-diagnostic & look into the warantee replacement if it fails. scandisk + surface scan wont hurt either

[Nelson37]

Assuming you are not out of disk space and there is no pre-existing file with the same name, scandisk may solve your problem. Also consider reformating that partition.
Some models of IBM Drives are having much higher than normal failure rates, you could have a defective drive.

[igornt]

Thanks, guys. Now, any operation with my second HD (copying, moving, scandisk, etc) freezes my computer so that even ctrl+alt+del cannot help. Now, I assume I need to get another harddrive. I will look for a QUANTUM this time. It is my first drive, and (touch wood) not a single problem whatsoever.