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OT/ Is my hard drive dying?

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blade47

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I just formated and did a fresh install of win98 and everything was fine. I installed alot of programs over my network to the computer and everything went smoothly.

Then when I tried to install a game from the local cd-rom drive on the system about half way through the install it said it couldn't write to c: drive. I rebooted and everything was fine. I tried to install it again and it installed flawlessly. The system was functioning perfectly except for nearly everytime I tried to install anything from the cd-rom I'd get the same error couldn't write to hd.

I thought maybe the cd-rom was going bad. Or some settings were messed up. So I tried changing the udma settings in the bios but when I did that the computer would hang during boot up at the verifying dmi settings (I think was what it said). I changed them back and it's still hanging.

So I decided to just clear the bios, reformat and start over. When I started the format it said trying to recover allocation unit ######. It did this several times and is still formating so I don't know what will happen yet when it's done.

Does anyone have any idea if the drive is about to bite the big one or if I have another problem? The drive has been working perfectly and this is the first problem I've ever had with it.
 
It's less than 6 months old (it's got a 3 year warranty). It's been running on an overclocked pci bus (39mhz for around 4 months with no problems). I pulled it and put it in a different mobo running at stock speed (33mhz pci bus) and that's when the problems started.🙁

I've just started reinstalling windows and the hd and cd-rom appear to be working fine.😕
 
I'd RMA that thing just to be safe. It costs you nothing but the shipping and at least you'll know you've got a solid drive. What brand is it? I had an IBM go bad on me and they were excellent to deal with.

Rob
 
It's a Western Digital 10.2gig. I've been playing around with it some more and every thing works great except when installing something from the local cd-rom to the hd.😕 I can install from the network or another hard drive to the WD with no problems at all.

The only time I get an error is when installing from the local cd-rom. It says unable to write to hd press any key to continue. When I press a key it continues to copy the files just fine.😕 I really don't think it's the hard drive. The strange thing is everything I'm using came out of other systems that were working perfectly.:frown:

Gigabyte 6BXC
Acer 40x Cd-rom
WD 10.2 gid hd

I just think it's so odd that the only time an error occurs is when installing from the cd-rom.

BTW it usually chokes on the large files, the smaller ones seem to do just fine.😕
 
is the cd rom and the hard drive on the same ide channel, if they are try moving the cdrom to the secondary. That may help.
 
Maybe try swaping the cable to the cd-rom drive or give the cd player a cleaning, a piece of dust will cause havoc.
 
I've tried the cd-rom on the same channel and on one by itself. I'm trying a thorough surface scan of the hd to see if I have alot of bad sectors or something.
 
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