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While burning my computer comes to a complete stop ***FIXED***

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
All I can hear is my hard drive being accessed. It's constant until the burn is done. Previous to this I could surf the web, do multiple other things while I am burning a DVD.

Could my hard drive be dying?

The HD is a IBM 60GXP 60GIG HDD. It's kinda old, maybe two and a half years now. Should I look into replacing it?

I recently formatted the hard drive about a day ago. I am using NTFS.

Just to give a heads up, I installed Nvidia's newest IDE driver and it worked. I'm good to go. So if anyone of you experience this look into updating your IDE driver.
 
You can also do it on a Zip disk or CD as long as you can boot from them. But the signs are telling me the "DeathStar" is on the works on your IBM. Sorry to say that but it's a fact, Deskstars HDD are just piece of crap. I've killed three of them before and decided not to ever buy an IBM HDD.
 
make sure dma is on. make sure drives are on separate cables. cheap ide controllers like from silicon image are good for adding more devices without sharing cables. pcimicro has some.
 
this may sound asinine, but try defragging the hard drive, especially if you are still using fat32, which you might be if the drive is that old and you haven't reformatted recently. again, echoing what others have said, pio4 mode is killer for usability, make sure you are on ultra DMA.

-Mel

 
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