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Corupt HD's...

Kyle

Kyle

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Hey-
Yester day, I built an Athlon 500 w/ Gigabyte mobo, 128 ram and a maxtor 13gig HD. The HD was kinda old, so I thought it was just bad luck that when I installed Windows, it found a ton of bad sectors on it.
I went out and bought a new 20 gig Wester Digital HD, installed windows, but when I went to install Office 2k, the new HD also freaked out on me and is filled w/ bad sector.
Anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks
-Kyle
 
Very strange but I seriously doubt it's the drive. WD has a utility that lets you write zeros to the drive. Use that to reformat your new drive and try again.
 
I know, it is strange...I cant belive that another drive would go bad on me again, but not sure what eles it could be. Guess I'll try reformating agin...
 
It's possible that the voltage going to your HDs is inadequate and causing physical damage, or more likely that both drives already had bad sectors and it's not the computer's fault.
 
That is weird, because I just experienced the same thing.

I just built a brand new Abit KT7, Duron 650, 256MB system. I put my old Maxtor 20GB drive in it. This drive had worked perfectly before, but within two days in the new system, I did a ScanDisk and it said I had 1GB of bad sectors. That night I let it do another Scan Disk, and came back in the morning to find my drive was dead - BIOS wouldn't even recognize it, and it was making screeching noises...

Sigh... weird, because it worked perfectly before, but now it's dead. Oh well, that happens right? So I install a brand new Seagate 20GB ATA66 drive. New format, install, the works. Guess what, I'm starting to get bad sectors again. And guess when it started? During an install of Office 2K... Now I'm getting random lock ups with the drive making a continuous access noise, making me do a hard reboot.

I have built dozens and dozens of computers, and have never seen this... Weird...
 
Man..that is exactly what happened to me even down to the office 2k thing =)
No idea what is wrong...
 
LoL, kinda weird. I am having the same problem with my Maxtor 10.2 gig hard-drive. One night I restart and it said I had a bad sector. I left it going and the next morning I started my pc and it went fine. Over the next month or so I went to format the drive and it locked up on 7%. Said something like format not ready or something like that. I ended up having to do a quick format and I am still having problems as of today. Random lockups when installing apps, games etc. I am prolly going to have to get me a new hard-drive.
 
You might be running into a problem that I used to see quite often. Instead of using the normal IDE cable, try an Ultra cable. The problem is Signal Noise Interference, it is very system specific and only affects some drives. I had one system that I was having the exact same problem you are and when I put the drive back into a different system, it worked just fine without any bad sectors. The funny part was that I had 4 of the same drives and it only affected one of them.
 
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