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SATA 1.5TB Problems..

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coxmaster

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Yesterday i picked up a Seagate 1.5TB SATA drive. It installed and was detected no problem. The problem happened when i tried to format it. Windows refused to format part of it. Seagate said to use their tool (so i did) and it worked just fine. I assumed it was fine, and proceeded to use it.

Today i decide to actually test the drive.. I ran the Error scan in HD Tune and got this... http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9023/tunevv4.jpg

So i decided to run a chkdsk /r and here is what i got: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/635/chkss6.jpg


Does that mean that part of the drive is dead? If so i'll just take it back to Microcenter and swap it out i guess.

The drive is writeable, no problems at all there. I even have Windows 7 beta installed on it already. Windows shows the entire partition, so is it really dead?
 
Does it make any odd noises? Looks to me like one of the platters is bad. You have about 26% of the drive shown as bad and that is roughly the size of 1 platter.
 
Ya thats what i thought. Makes no noise at all.. According to seagate the problem is common (and fixable) using their Seatools application. However, Seatools doesnt detect my harddrive(s) both of which are Seagate.. I might just have to try the dos version of Seatools.
 
Well the test ran last night for about 6 hours (as i slept) and it passed completely. That is the most thorough HD test i have found, and for it to pass that makes me think it is actually working fine. Now why wont it format the remaining 380GB?
 
Talked to my A+ Teacher.. she seems to think its a size issue with windows or something. Is that possible/true?

If nothing else works, i'll be returning to Microcenter tonight/tomorrow to swap for a new 1.5TB. If i get another defective, i'll downgrade to the cheaper (more stable) 1TB. I would still like to hold onto 1.5TB though
 
Wow, stupid reason but now it works. Nvidia chipset drivers created the problem.. Everything formatted and partitioned (passed the test also) just fine now!
 
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