Hard drive problem.

[boxed]

Last night, all of a sudden my harddrive got corrupted i believe..

Some ActiveX thing froze my pc, and i turned it off with the button on the tower. but after trying to reboot aton of times, it failed on me.

DMI ....

error on disk, blah blah.

Reset Cmos. nothing, tried to reinstall windows xp pro....couldn't even install anything...kept saying it couldn't copy files onto the hard drive. Right now i'm using a 9gig harddrive from my old Dell L series. And its working on my PC. I even tried using that Harddrive on another pc to see if it wants to install windows...nothing keeps on saying error on disk. Is their a way of fixing it? or do i have to RMA the harddrive back to westerndigital?

Thanks

 

[TuxDave]

You'll get more views and help over here.

 

[thermalpaste]

wrong forum.........

 

[cirthix]

were you overclocking with agp lock off? You should always force agp frequency to be 66mhz, because if not, you'll be overclocking your hard drive (agp is 2xpci frequency, ide is on pci bus) cause i've seen this happen before. you have to low level format the drive.. sorry about ur data! (it was a wd drive too)

 

[thermalpaste]

Originally posted by: cirthix
were you overclocking with agp lock off? You should always force agp frequency to be 66mhz, because if not, you'll be overclocking your hard drive (agp is 2xpci frequency, ide is on pci bus) cause i've seen this happen before. you have to low level format the drive.. sorry about ur data! (it was a wd drive too)

THis happens only if the Hard-disk is using DMA mode and not in a PIO mode. The PCI bus can safely be taken upto a frequency of 37.5Mhz. Anything above that and your hard-disk is going to behave weirdly....