Maxtor 60 gig freezing on scandisk

[Civ88]

i reformatted my maxtor 60 gig 7200 rpm hard drive that is not even 3 months old. because in windows I was getting a blue screen stating that "it could not write to the Drive" after about 30 gigs of information was being thrown in there.. Prior to the reformat I have run scandisk several times on the drive and it would not complete causing me to restart. I've run maxtor's software in it and according to that the drive is fine.
My question is:
How come scandisk is freezing up?
and if anyone has had this problem before?
any help would be appreciated.

-Civ.

 

[wasnlos]

go to MAXTOR-HOMEPAGE and download MAXDIAG and MAXUTIL from the support section.
you'll be able to test your drive then and if it's crippled you'll get an error code for RMA.
before doing anything be sure to backup your data since you can do write-test also that erases the disk.

for the testing use the ordinary ATA-CONTROLLERS since the drive will not be detected on RAID-COBTROLLERS of any sort.

 

[Civ88]

Hey thanks alot,

those aren't the utilities that come with the hard drive is it?
aka (maxblast)


Civ

 

[wasnlos]

no MAXBLAST is something different and won't help here.
you'll have to download the files from MAXTOR.

 

[Civ88]

I talked to one of their tech support chicks and they said that it could be the IDE cable I am using, cause I am pretty sure I ran that test, it's called like factory recertification or something eh? well either way according to the tech chick she said that I need to use the "ultra cable" as opposed to regular IDE cables..oooh la la.
thanks alot though I appreciate the advice.

-Civ

 

[wasnlos]

hm,
i wonder how that will change anything, but if she says so, she might be right and i learned something new.
factory recertification is what i was talking about, sorry.

 

[VBboy]

Uhm, if you overclock you could have disk-related problems. Try downclocking in case you are oc'ing and see if that helps.

 

[Civ88]

Hey Vb Boy,

I don't think I am overclocking.
I don't get the logistics of it =)
heh heh.

RICH

 

[Civ88]

Oh yeah and thanks VB boy

-Civ

 

[wasnlos]

VBOY is right, if you overclock the FSB you overclock the diskcontrollers too.
this could result in malfunction of the disk.

 

[Civ88]

This is probably really dumb to ask, but I dun care. how does one check if he is overclocking. I am quite sure I'm not cause I really don't need to. I ask this because I didn't set up my computer.

-CIV