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yeah so i was out for the day and my computer was on downloading like it does every day except today when i got home i heard this werid noise coming from the hard drive that sounds like it is skipping all of the time. The hard drive is a western digital 80gb 8mb cache and when i restarted windows i was able to get it so that the hard drive could be detected in bios and in the device manager but it wasnt in my computer. device manager says its working properly but i think not.

anyone know whats wrong?
 
Make sure that all the cables are connected correctly, check the jumpers, possibly try placing it on another cable, you never know. But if worst comes to worst it sounds like a deceased HDD man, and it’s a WD. I've heard 50% good about them and 50% bad.

Is it still under warranty? If so send her back in, if not that sucks but I'd consider a Maxtor as a replacement. Good luck and I hope that it's just a loose cable or something.
 
yeah all the jumpers are ok and cables cause ive tried the cables on other hard drives and they work. the hard drive is only like 3 or 4 months old too.
 
Might I suggest that you try changing the PSU chain the HDD is on, and then checking a different PSU?

A buddy of mine called me the other night - I had sold him a 20GB drive a little while back, and he recently received an AthlonXP rig from his father to replace his P3, right? Anyways, so he's got the drive in there, and he's telling me that half the time, it isn't detected on startup.

So, I get inside the rig, and see that we've got two opticals, two hard drives, a GF2, and an AthlonXP 1900+ rigged to a generic 250w PSU. Came home, grabbed an Antec 300w (with high mileage!) to test with, let him borrow that for a few days. Sure enough, the problem was solved.

Lesson to be learned? Check your PSU.
 
Not only test the cables themselves but try moving the drive around on the cables.

If you have 2 hdd on your primary and 2 cdroms on your secondary. Try switching the faulty HD with a cdrom to move it around. I had a MSI board that would not allow 2 HDD's on the same cable, started out alright, eventually had probs and had to switch it so I had a HD and cdrom on each cable, wierd.
 
all i have hooked up right now is one hard drive with windows xp on it and the 80gb wd thats messed up. no opticals or other drives.
 
I think its dying. I've had to replace way too many of that model of drive.

I know all of you have your opinions on drives but that WD 80 and the Maxtor 120gb 7200rpm 2mb cache ones go bad way too often.
 
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