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hard drives from hell

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thevampirelord66

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opkay ive been having soem problems with my hard drives lately.

ive had an 80 Gig maxtor 7200RPM 8MB cache for about a year nwo and never had any problems with it.

recently i bought a western digital 160 GIG from CUSA.

i had no problems with then for liek the first 2 days then the problems started to happen.
i had the 80 gig with my OS on it, and i had the 160 gig for file storage in slave.

both the hard drives are on the slave IDE channel......if ut hink that would cause the problems let me know i can change that.

i started getting the blue screen of death while i would be doing anything on the pc.

if i let it sit in windows over night iw ould wake up with a blue screen of death.....i think the screen said MACHINE_CHECK_REFISTRY....i figured the 80 must be dead....so i took it out, formatted the 160 and installed windows on it...and it ran fien for awhile then i started getting the blue screen of death.
i ran a chkdsk /r in the recovery counsel and it fixed it for awhile, then i started getting the blue screen of death wihiel booting....i ran another chkdsk /r and it got to about 75% and said...sumthign liek unrecoverable errors were found.

i heard somewhere that if you have windows xp on a drive more than 70gigs it can cause problems..so right now im formatting the 160 into a 60 for the OS and a 70 for files.

FYI....when i tried to put the 80 in...without the 160 just put the 80 in by itself to try and install winXP 64 BIT..it would nto detect it.
i will elt you know hwo it turns out.....but WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY HARD DRIVES?

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both drives on slave ide channel ?????

do you mean that you have 2 ide cd devices and you have both your hdd's as secondary * slave *

or you have both hdd's setup on same ide channel if so check your cable try a different ide channel on your mobo
 
back off your OC first.

If you already did...the second thing I would look at is your PSU/Mobo.
 
yeha i backed off the OC allready....what i mean by slave ide channel is that i have my opticals on the master IDE channel. and i have the hard drives on the secondary...the mobo is almost brand newand ran fine for about 2 months with the 80 on it...and the PSU SHOULD be fine. after i format the 160 and finish installing win xp on that system...ill switch the IDE channels and see what happens.


the 160 seems to be taking the win xp install fine at the moment.
 
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