Hard Drive Problem

[mvandam]

My dad's computer has a 40G Seagate drive that has been acting up over the past month or so. It is partitioned as 15G for OS/programs and 25G data. Twice now for no apparent reason the D partition will lose format and of course all data. upon reformatting drive D and rebooting we get can not find ntldr and the system will not boot. Restart with WinXP CD and got to reinstall and now C drive is unknown/unformatted. We have run all Seagate diagnostics and no errors found. I am becoming very frustrated. Any ideas?

 

[DonaldC]

I had a few strange problems with a new Segate a month or two back. Finally ending up using the Segate software to write zeros to the whole drive and it has worked okay since. Give it a try.

 

[mvandam]

Any other ideas from anyone?

 

[crisp82]

Is there anything overclocked on the system? Any power ratings changed etc?

If so, this could be the answer.

 

[mvandam]

No overclocks, everything stock. It's my Dad's system used mainly for surfing emailing and storing digital pictures.