Problems with WD 20Gb 7200 RPM Hard drive

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Hello all. I received yesterday new parts for a PC and today i put it al ltogether and everythign worked fine until i connected the HArd drive. When i boot up, the computer posts, and then stays for a minute "checking for primary master" and the hard drive is also making a repetitive loud noise more or less like "tak tak tak *one second pause* tak tak tak *one second pause*... IT makes the sound al lthe time the pc is turned on and after a minute of checking for "primary master" it searches for the floppy. Does anybody know if this is a bad hard drive or any other thing? Any hints? This drive is an OEM drive just received from newegg, so let me know what i should do with it. thanks for yo utime and help.

 

[InsaneMorphius]

Did you check to ensure that the master/slave settings on the harddrive itself were properly orientated?

I would check that first

 

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thank you for your help, i will check that, i dont remember payign much attentio nto that 😱

 

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ok just checked jumpers, and adjusted them for master the hard drive and slave the cd-rom, but i still get the same problem, no changes. Anyone have an idea?

 

[John]

Possible bad sectors? Run a DFT, or RMA it for a noise issue. Backup data first.

 

[cavdraco]

try pulling the jumpers off the WD completely if you onlly have one drive and set the cd rom to master if you are using 2 ide chanels that works in my machines

 

[Bovinicus]

I believe that you probably have a bad harddrive. However, you should try using a different IDE cable just in case.

 

[GregMal]

When I installed my WD 20 gig last year, I first had to boot the machine with
WD's utility disk and configure the drive to either ata33 or ata66/100 specs.
Have you done this???
Greg

 

[GrumpyMan]

I don't think I have ever heard any WD drive go...tak tak tak. And I own that very drive among others. Sounds to me like some one dropped it during shipping. RMA it. I hear Newegg has a good return policy.

 

[Ark]

This is known problem of WD drives, in most of cases drive is dead.
To check it connect drive power only, do not put data cable (40 pin ribbon)
If it still makes clicks - RMA it or return to the store.

 

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Thank yo uall for you help 🙂 I've tried out a few things yo umentioned, but stil lthe same, i guees i'l lRMA it to newegg tomorrow. Thanks again for your help, I learned a bit today thanks to you all 🙂

 

[CZroe]

Before you do, always run Western Digitals Data LifeGuard utility. It works like IBM's Drive Fitness Test and is capable of repairing the drive in most cases. Even if you are RMAing it, it's still good just to know what was wrong. DON'T let it repair or else you can't prove it had a problem! It repairs bad sectors by communicating with the drive's controller hardware and instructing it to remap bad sectors to spare sectors. IBM and WD are the only ones with these utilities, so I encourage you to make use of them 🙂