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sounds like its going to go anytime now. sounds are never a good sign. you can always take it back to seagate and tell them there are weird sounds coming out of it. Read-write head crash to be?

if you want really fast boot up, keep your c drive small just for windows and probably some applications. say 5-10GB. if you want practical, t3h l337 n3wb's right. Raptor for windows and ALL your "installed" applications, 250GB just for the fun / important stuff. Next time you need to format...

Cheap drives don't burn on everything. If its an old drive, it just means that the laser is not burning as well and its time to change. If its a new drive, you just have to try media of other brand till you get a match. Typically, low quality media would create problems on an average or low...

if there's only one drive on that cable, u can put it to master without confusing windows.

have u tried swapping the drives and see if they have the same effect? if it does then you can be sure there's nothing wrong with the drive.

don't drop it don't put a lot of force on it don't put it in cold temperatures and then hot again (condensation) don't walk through the rain with it

Try plugging out your cd-rom drive to confirm.

Check this link out. Maybe it'll help you. How to get around the Windows 137GB Capacity Barrier

It could be anything from hardware to software. My advice is try formatting first, thats always good. If it still screws up, then its hardware. If its the RAM, you can remove either one of them to test. if its other parts, try swapping them etc. The last time it happened to me, it was a faulty...

Take a look at this. http://www.adrc.net/data-recovery-faq/did-my-hard-disk-drive-fail.html

do we ever need to reformat if we're running linux? i never had to.

Carson's right. Its definitely a hardware fault. I would advice you to send it for data recovery service if you really need the stuff. There are many you can consider. Another one is Adroit Data Recovery Centre - http://www.adrc.net/