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Hard drive woes

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AndrewCharron

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So I bought a 250gb SATAII Maxtor DimondMax 10 off NCIX.com for abouy $130 after tax and shipping (CAD), and I got it home and put it in. It was my first SATA drive ive ever had and installed. I plugged in the SATA cable to the mobo, attached the SATA power cable to a molex and plugged both into the drive. I had it set as secondary to my primary 40gb Western Digital PATA drive.

I used the drive for about a week as storage, where I installed all my games and put all my video files and songs (Yes, the songs were legal, copied from my CD collection :p). Then I heard a clicking sound comming from the SATAII drive. This increased in severity and the computer froze for about 20 seconds every time it clicked. Eventually I got a "HotSwapping Error" in Windows, and the drive stopped working completely. Even teh BIOS didnt detect the drive.

So I RMA'd it, and got a new one (Or what I suspected was a new one) back. I plugged in that one, and all was good.

About a week later, the drive made the same clicking noise twice while the computer booted. I was worried, but it didnt do it again. Now, about a month later, the drive is clicking and freezing again, along with dissapearing and re-appearing in Windows.

At this moment the drive is still working. All I know is that this should be a new drive, my motherboard only supports SATA 1.5gb/s, and I have the same problem.

Anyone have any ideas? Could upgrading the BIOS help? Coult it be another defective drive? (I wish I had wrote down the serial to compare) Anything I can do?

Specs:

AMD Athlon64 3200+ Skt 939
1gb Value Ram (512 Kingston, 512 unbranded)
MSI K8T Neo2-F v2.0 mobo
40gb Westen Digital 7200rpm IDE PATA
250gb Maxtor Dimondmax 10 SATAII 7200rpm
ATi 9800Pro 128mb
ThameStar 550watt PSU w/ Dual Fans

Windows XP Pro x64 (Fully Updated)
All drivers fully up-to-date (From www.viaarena.com)

Thanks
 
Repeat problems like this with harddrives usually point to bad voltages coming from a power supply. You might want to check into that.
 
New PSU, and check the cooling on that drive while you're at it. And get backups on DVD of your system disk while you still can.

 
unhappy_mage said:
New PSU, and check the cooling on that drive while you're at it. And get backups on DVD of your system disk while you still can.

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There is a case fan blowing in directly at the Hard Drive, so it should be sufficent cooling. And I dont yet have a DVD-Burner, so I guess burning to DVDs is out.
 
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