Hi, I've been having alot of problems with what should have been an "Oh so simple" hard disk addition.
I had been using a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 IDE drive, but it was getting full and cluttered - like they do, so I decided to buy a nice new SATA drive - as my motherboard (a Foxconn NF4K8AC) supposedly suports both. I picked out a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, 160GB, SATA drive - and promptly ordered it.
I installed the drive without problem. It was recognised by the Bios, and after running Seagates "Disk wizard" setup utility - windows (XP, SP2) had no trouble recognising the new drive either. The drive worked fine for hours, then I got a complete system freeze (couldn't even move the mouse). I restarted the computer, and windows wouldnt boot - it just gave a blue screen error during its loading. I unplugged the new SATA drive, and booted again, this time it worked perfectly - so I shut down, and gave the new drive another go, to find that it worked fine as before - all my files were still there, and everything was accessible. Then, I was in the middle of transfering some files from my old to new hard drives - and boom, another complete system freeze, I restarted, and lo and behold - couldnt boot windows. Unplugged drive, booted, shut down, plugged it in, booted, and all worked - until the next freeze. After a few cycles like this, the new hard drive started reporting bad sectors - and seagates self diagnostis utility "seatools" came up with bad sector errors when i ran it. I tried to fully reformat the drive using the NTFS formatter in the windows installer - but this couldnt even complete, it just gave corrupt drive errors. I duely sent the drive back to the retailer - and got a replacment about a week later - The new drive started perfect, but then, as before - about an hour into operation (i had succesfully copied accross files) - I got a complete system freeze. Rebooted, got blue screen, and had to unplug my new drive to continue. Currently, Seatools reports no errors with the drive.
So, in my great despair I came here - and was wandering if you thought the new drive might also be corrupted, or if its maybe a problem with me running an IDE drive and a SATA drive simultaneously?
I have updated my BIOS and all drives, I've tried fiddling with many different BIOS settings, and I've tried different SATA ports - and IDE ports, and different cables. The jumper settings on the drives are all correct, and I've even tried the jumpers in different positions - all leaving the same result.
Any help will be very very much appreciated - and sorry for the long post. I hope I havnt missed out any vital information - but if I have, please ask!
Thanks again.
I had been using a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 IDE drive, but it was getting full and cluttered - like they do, so I decided to buy a nice new SATA drive - as my motherboard (a Foxconn NF4K8AC) supposedly suports both. I picked out a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, 160GB, SATA drive - and promptly ordered it.
I installed the drive without problem. It was recognised by the Bios, and after running Seagates "Disk wizard" setup utility - windows (XP, SP2) had no trouble recognising the new drive either. The drive worked fine for hours, then I got a complete system freeze (couldn't even move the mouse). I restarted the computer, and windows wouldnt boot - it just gave a blue screen error during its loading. I unplugged the new SATA drive, and booted again, this time it worked perfectly - so I shut down, and gave the new drive another go, to find that it worked fine as before - all my files were still there, and everything was accessible. Then, I was in the middle of transfering some files from my old to new hard drives - and boom, another complete system freeze, I restarted, and lo and behold - couldnt boot windows. Unplugged drive, booted, shut down, plugged it in, booted, and all worked - until the next freeze. After a few cycles like this, the new hard drive started reporting bad sectors - and seagates self diagnostis utility "seatools" came up with bad sector errors when i ran it. I tried to fully reformat the drive using the NTFS formatter in the windows installer - but this couldnt even complete, it just gave corrupt drive errors. I duely sent the drive back to the retailer - and got a replacment about a week later - The new drive started perfect, but then, as before - about an hour into operation (i had succesfully copied accross files) - I got a complete system freeze. Rebooted, got blue screen, and had to unplug my new drive to continue. Currently, Seatools reports no errors with the drive.
So, in my great despair I came here - and was wandering if you thought the new drive might also be corrupted, or if its maybe a problem with me running an IDE drive and a SATA drive simultaneously?
I have updated my BIOS and all drives, I've tried fiddling with many different BIOS settings, and I've tried different SATA ports - and IDE ports, and different cables. The jumper settings on the drives are all correct, and I've even tried the jumpers in different positions - all leaving the same result.
Any help will be very very much appreciated - and sorry for the long post. I hope I havnt missed out any vital information - but if I have, please ask!
Thanks again.
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