Bad HD or Bad Computer?

[howardpm]

I recently purchased a 80 gig maxtor drive, I was going to use this as my D drive, I have a 30 WD for my primary. Anyways to make a long story short my maxtor was making some weird spin down noise everytime I was reading from it, it sounded like a modem trying to connect. I contacted maxtor and all test past but I decided to get a new one just incase. Now I installed the new one yeserday, now the good new is the noise while running files programs off it is gone but on boot up I get the worst clunking noise comming from it. (I don't know why the computer is even reading this drive at boot up)

I have an AMD 1.333 gig, on an FIC motherboard. using that ide cable with the blue end on it. Windows XP. If I unplug the new maxtor drive I have no noise issues (the drive copys and writes files just fine)

 

[DaiShan]

sounds like that drive is bad, have you tried running their diagnosis software on this drive? was this an RMA from them? One time I had a WD die on me so I sent it in to them, got it back, and it was still dead, sent it back, they sent it back dead again, 3rd time was the charm however 😉

 

[howardpm]

I haven't ran the diagnostic on the new drive yet Ill try that later tonight after work. This is the new one thats making the real loud clunk noise on boot up.

 

[howardpm]

Sigh... I ran the maxtor test program last night. And it failed the Smart Self Test. Whatever that is. So I guess I gotta send 2 drivers back to maxtor. Is it possible my computer could cause these problems or did I just get really unlucky and get 2 broken drivers.