Got my maxtor replacement drive, and its dying the same way!

[Gundam]

Ok my maxtor was acting weird (it would sound as if it was spinning down, then everything would get choppy, and sometimes it won't detect) So I sent it to maxtor, and they sent me a replacement. Now the replacement is doing the same thing! What could be wrong? Can this be because of my ide cable, or my power cable?

 

[MrGrim]

It could be anything. Bad power connector, overclocking the PCI bus, 2nd bad HD in a row, bad handling when delivered and so on...

 

[MWink]

<< Bad power connector >>

 

[Tarmouth]

I went through 3 RMA's from maxtor before deducing that the mobo i had just didn't like them lol. once a different one was put in, it ran fine

 

[Gundam]

Ok a lil more background info:

The HD is second on the primary ide chain. It is used as a drive for my backups. I dont think its because its my mobo hating maxtor. Because my main HD is a Maxtor, and it is actually older then my secondary drive. I never had a problem with my first maxtor, only the second one.

BTW, the powersupply is a 400w Antec.

 

[Tarmouth]

hehe yeah that makes it a bit different . Did you use maxblast to format it ?

 

[Gundam]

To tell you the truth, I don't really remember. I do remember formatting it as NTFS, and I don't think Maxblast supports that right? How would you guys format a maxtor HD with XP?

 

[TimeKeeper]

Would you happen to run your system out of 33Mhz IDE spec?

 

[Tarmouth]

I don't use xp but i thought i'd give ya the bump anyway

 

[Gundam]

My system is not overclocked. And if it was, wouldn't both drives have problems? They are both 40gig maxtors, although different models.