WD Hard drives going haywire!!

[gf4200isdabest]

I own two WD 80Gb special edition hard drives. In the past 5 months, both have malfunctioned. My computer restarts, makes some "dying animal noises," has issues detecting the drives, etc. Eventually, I always manage to get the computer booted up and whichever hard drive died is detected as having bad sectors and corrupted EVERYTHING (files, partition tables, etc). I end up using "Runtime's DiskExplorer" to recover files (no other utilities including norton disk doctor can even do anything with the HD's when they're "corrupted"). Both times, I've managed to get the disks reformatted. One of them seems to be running fine now but the other just went dead on me again. I got the files I wanted but now I'm having trouble reformatting (i tried both Partition Magic 8 as well as a WindowsXP Install CD); quite simply, neither can manage to format the damn thing. Both hard drives were purchased a year and a half ago from NewEgg.

So, on to my question(s): Has this ever happened to anyone? What did you do? Is there any kind of utility I can run to attempt to fix these hard drives? Is there a possibility that something else is messing up these hard drives?

Other Key components of my system:
Intel 2.26GHZ
Epox 4g4a+
Enermax 431W PSU
Corsair XMS 3200 RAM

Thanks for your help!

 

[venk]

my 80 GB BB drive died recently and I RMA's it. I can't tell you what happened with the replacment drive because I sold it.

 

[sharkeeper]

LOL, dying animal noises?

Never heard anything as strange as this one; that's a 180GXP that decided to sing its own funeral march.

Cheers!