Hey all. I have been having a few problems for the last 10 days or so that have got me baffled. Never experienced anything like this before and was hoping some viewers may have some insight.
Machine :
Athlon XP 2100
ASUS A7V266-C
WD 60 Gig drive
Maxtor 40 Gig drive
Quantum Fireball 15 Gig drive
About 10 days ago my computer locks. This machine usually runs until I reboot it so this in itself is new. After rebooting one of the partitions on the Qauntum drive is gone. Windows says not formatted. This is odd. Reformat it (lost data on the drive) and things are ok for 2 days. I then get a hal.dll (i think) missing on boot. Format the C:\ and do a fresh install of XP SP1. A few days later the machine does not boot. No error messages. Appears the HDD is finally gone. Had this drive for 4 years so figured it's time to change.
Install a brand new WD 60 Gig drive. Partition it all, install os etc. but i notice something weird. The Maxtor drive I had installed on the 2ndary chain, one of the partitions is unformatted like the original problem on the Quantum drive. Hrm. Very odd. Reformat that partition and continue installing the new system.
This new HDD works fone for about 24 hours and then freezes. Reboot to invalid system disk.
What could be causing this problem? I highly doubt that 3 hard drives are going bad, one being brand new.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Any input appreciated.
Machine :
Athlon XP 2100
ASUS A7V266-C
WD 60 Gig drive
Maxtor 40 Gig drive
Quantum Fireball 15 Gig drive
About 10 days ago my computer locks. This machine usually runs until I reboot it so this in itself is new. After rebooting one of the partitions on the Qauntum drive is gone. Windows says not formatted. This is odd. Reformat it (lost data on the drive) and things are ok for 2 days. I then get a hal.dll (i think) missing on boot. Format the C:\ and do a fresh install of XP SP1. A few days later the machine does not boot. No error messages. Appears the HDD is finally gone. Had this drive for 4 years so figured it's time to change.
Install a brand new WD 60 Gig drive. Partition it all, install os etc. but i notice something weird. The Maxtor drive I had installed on the 2ndary chain, one of the partitions is unformatted like the original problem on the Quantum drive. Hrm. Very odd. Reformat that partition and continue installing the new system.
This new HDD works fone for about 24 hours and then freezes. Reboot to invalid system disk.
What could be causing this problem? I highly doubt that 3 hard drives are going bad, one being brand new.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Any input appreciated.
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