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Something wrong with my ST3320620AS :(

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blagoonga123

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Okay, when I load up bios, I have to put the setting for my SATA II (where my drive is plugged in) controller to Enabled instead of Auto. If it's on auto, it won't detect anything period, not even in windows. Even with it set to enabled, bios won't detect anything actually plugged into the drive. However, if I leave it on enabled, disk management shows that it is actually there. I can use it as I wish, but there are three things off (enough so that I can't use it yet):

1) When I go to Discwizard to try and install it the automatic way, the JMicron thing I use to detect my sata2 driver won't be able to detect the harddrive. Instead, it detects my CDROM CDR/RW drive (which is plugged into the second IDE slot).

2) When I try using my sata drive in a deep way (I can put one or two gigs into it at a time, but if I try moving tens of gigs into it), it crashes my computer. Not BSOD, but like, it makes it so that I can't do anything anymore with my box. Some programs will still work (winamp and aim), but explorer.exe will crash, and I can't use ctrl alt del to end the process and restart. I also can't shut down or restart in this condition so I'm forced to illegal shut down.

3) When I'm using my sata drive slightly, it starts making my computer skip every 5 seconds or so. By skip i mean winamp will stop for about a second as well as my mouse and then start working normally again.

Example:
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I have the Asrock 939dual-sata2. I don't know what info i should present if it might be my mobo.

I'm a total noob when it comes to hardware :(
 
You might want to use SeaTools and do a cable check. I had a bad SATA cable that corrupted the shit out of a drive.

It worked fine in windows, but kept crashing it hard. The drive took it's final crash and the drive was dead, I took the ends off the SATA cable and one of the wires came unsoldered. It was a cheap UV SATA cable. But I didn't check the cable until after I RMA'd the drive, a cable swap might of brought it back to life.

I'm getting a lot of bad sectors on my similiar drive, I still have to contact Seagate.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1096788
 
What kind of SATA cable are you guys using? I have the same drive and have been having all sorts of problems with it until I swapped my SATA cable. The one that gave me trouble was 30AWG gage cable. Swapped to a 26AWG gage and all is great. This is on NF4 mobo.
 
awins1:

What kind of SATA cable are you guys using? I have the same drive and have been having all sorts of problems with it until I swapped my SATA cable. The one that gave me trouble was 30AWG gage cable. Swapped to a 26AWG gage and all is great. This is on NF4 mobo.
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I can't find my reciept, but the junky one's were probably 26 guage. About all cheap UV cables are crap. I went with high quality sleaved cables from frozencpu that will last me a while. Wish they were right angled though. You don't have many options when you need really long cables for an LiLi V1200.

And you said your board is SATA II so enable it on the drive.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/sata/st3320620as.html

It could be a bad drive, especially if you bought it from the egg. They don't do much for packaging on a hard drive. I usually buy my drives from zipzoomfly because of the packaging.

But when I recieved this drive from NewEgg it was their best packaging job to date, you couldn't beat the deal they had going.
 
I just ran a whole bunch of tests on this hard drive, and it can't find any problems with it. ..Cept the fact that it's detected as a freaking hard drive. What the heck.
 
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