Weird crashes with new rig killing hardrives?

[Eagle Eye]

LOL I knew it it was only a matter of time enaberif

Download the following files, you might need winrar to extract them and you will also need some form of burning to software to burn the image to cd, NERO works great.

If you happen to have a floppy drive kicking around you could use that or create a bootable USB stick.

EE

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eye

LOL I knew it it was only a matter of time enaberif

Download the following files, you might need winrar to extract them and you will also need some form of burning to software to burn the image to cd, NERO works great.

If you happen to have a floppy drive kicking around you could use that or create a bootable USB stick.

EE

I get tired of people blaming Seagate. Yes they have their problems, yes they publicy said they have problems but not EVERYONE has problems and people who generalize that seagate sucks and is the cause of all problems doesn't help rectify the situation.

[freakyflow]

Well its obviously the HD since when I boot it said "HD not found" and in my error log im getting about 500 bad sector errors a week, it is brand new.

I think its related to my burning because of the temp files it writes to my hd during the burn process?


Anyhow im going to burn the .iso now

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by freakyflow

Well its obviously the HD since when I boot it said "HD not found" and in my error log im getting about 500 bad sector errors a week, it is brand new.

I think its related to my burning because of the temp files it writes to my hd during the burn process?


Anyhow im going to burn the .iso now

HDD not found can be a cause of many problems.

1) Faulty sata Port
2) Faulty sata cable
3) Faulty psu
4) Faulty HDD

That's why I say grab that UBCD and put it on a cd and run that HDAT2 program.

[misterd]

I have a bad 750GB Seagate as well. Find out if you're using dreaded SD15 firmware with a drive made in Thailand.

[DarKStar]

I've seen a BAD power supply kill drives one after the other on friends of a relative's PC - and the drives were all WDs - Even put one of my old test drives and within a few hours it crashed......

[Nodscene]

Hmm, I have 2 750GB Seagates with the "dreaded" SD15 firmware made it Thailand and have zero issues with them.

[freakyflow]

I ran the seagate dos repair, fast scan failed, the long scan detected and "said" it fixed the error but I have doubts. I'm going to clone my HD and run more tests and see what happens.

My firmware is sd11 no idea where its made but I doubt ill be buying seagate again since both those drives failed and they were brand new (they are also diff models).

From what Ive read you can't really repair block errors, I still find it odd they both broke in the same fashion, burning dvd and cd data, when the data I was burning is on an external hd that's worked great for 2+years.


ps. doubt its a power issue, I have 650w corsair and only 1 vid card.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by freakyflow

I ran the seagate dos repair, fast scan failed, the long scan detected and "said" it fixed the error but I have doubts. I'm going to clone my HD and run more tests and see what happens.

My firmware is sd11 no idea where its made but I doubt ill be buying seagate again since both those drives failed and they were brand new (they are also diff models).

From what Ive read you can't really repair block errors.

Oh quit being a little ninny.

You have no idea if the drives were faulty or if it could have been caused by something else.

You'd be looking a bit foolish if you got a 3rd drive of a diff manu and it was faulty.

[freakyflow]

Oh quit being a little ninny.

You have no idea if the drives were faulty or if it could have been caused by something else.

OK genius what causes block errors in brand new HD's? Don't call me a ******* ninny when you suggest no alternatives.