Help please, hard drive incompatible?

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carnag3

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Ok, so you can see my rig from my specs, basically, a while ago i wanted to play with osx on my pc, so i hackintoshed it, but had to change my bios from IDE to AHCI, Everything went fine until my hard drive died, (The day after, started clicking, :/ WTF, brand new (2 weeks) drive click of death... so i did something stupid and osx screwed it? R/A'd it and got a new one back, bought a new macbook pro, so i have fed my fetish and am strictly on vista x64 now for my pc, still using AHCI however after reading the benifits, install the new drive (Click, click, click.) ... I have been using 2 other hard drives for the time being Seagate ES 500 gig's (AMAZING :) ) no problem, but it seems like something is causing this one drive to die,

the drive in question is a Samsung 400 gig, standard Hard drive...

The question... I originally blamed myself for killing the drive, but now it seems as though it is either 2 bad drives in a row, or something is killing this model, Problems started just after going to AHCI, is there some type of incompatability I dont know about? What else could be killing (or clicking) this drive, note, it is not constant, just during some operations. (Pasting, copying, using the drive :S.)

Thanks, any help welcome...
 
Are you installing Windows before or after setting it to AHCI? If before, that's not guaranteed to work and it's not a drive failure. BTW - AFAIK, this only applies to the OS drive, not the other drives, but there may be a problem if you install a non-OS drive as IDE, format and partition in Windows and then switch to AHCI. Moral: set to AHCI before doing anything to the drive.
 
I've never heard of AHCI being determental to a HDs health.

I'm voting you just have a black cloud over your head. :)

Tell ya what, I've got my best tin foil hat on my head right now and I'm sending you massive good luck vibes...................................

OK, you're good to go get another drive and it's gonna last a loooong time! :D

Good Luck!
 
I think it's just that you've run into Samsung's shit-quality control. I've got a 500GB one here that does something similar. But it also just completely disappears from the system a few minutes at a time. I had it part of a RAID-0 array and half the time my system wouldn't boot. Samsung however, won't replace it because "it passes all the tests, so it must be a problem with another component." They couldn't tell me why my system worked fine before, and with another drive still works fine.
 
ok, thanks for the replies, just wanted to make sure that after all these years there was something that I had looked over to do with hard drive installation :p, it was my OS drive when i r/a'd it, but this time it has only been fo rdata storage, LOL thats exactly what my first one did, would recognize, then not... I am really pissed off, I dont want to bother with their products anymore, I might just bin this one if it continues.
 
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