New hard drive flakey

kevo84 · 05-19-2007, 03:38 AM

Hello all, this is my first post...

Ok I just received my new OEM[/u] 250gig 16mb cache Seagate ultra ATA HD.....it passes Seagate diagnostic tests, but yet it does something weird. While installing XP the drive makes a medium pitched moaning sound and spins down, then spins back up a couple seconds later and continues on with its business. It did this twice while it was preparing for the installation..and i heard it do this a couple other times after I initially installed the drive itself. I'm affraid I may have a deffective drive but im not sure, this is my first HD larger than 60gigs haha..anyway any input would be good, ill keep you posted as to how it seems to be performing with windows installed.

Thanks all

oscaryu1 · 05-19-2007, 01:41 PM

It seems like its failing... unless Seagate made the hard drives like that.

kevo84 · 05-19-2007, 03:34 PM

yeah i think its a defective drive. My old hard drive is doing something similar, but its obvious that its a head crash...it makes the symptomatic CLUNK spins back up and it does not do it at the same times like the new one does..its completely random. Besides that my old one does not make the hum/moaning type sound while its spinning down/up.

I managed to get through the XP setup on the new drive, but not without missing files and .dll errors after it was installed...so im sure it is having some write issues. Plus during the installation, at the exact same point it would make spin down/up/hum....and continue on. It did this at least 10 times, exactly the same place in the installation. I put in my old hard drive to see if I might have a bad IDE controller or something, and it went through the same point in the installation fine.

oh well guess i get to see what new eggs RMA is like

yippee!

oscaryu1 · 05-19-2007, 11:39 PM

ok I have an old connner phipherals 40MB hdd that does that... it runs for 3 secs, dies, and runs again, dies, ect... their RMA is nice, thats what I heard

05-19-2007, 03:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
kevo84 New Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2	New hard drive flakey Hello all, this is my first post... Ok I just received my new OEM[/u] 250gig 16mb cache Seagate ultra ATA HD.....it passes Seagate diagnostic tests, but yet it does something weird. While installing XP the drive makes a medium pitched moaning sound and spins down, then spins back up a couple seconds later and continues on with its business. It did this twice while it was preparing for the installation..and i heard it do this a couple other times after I initially installed the drive itself. I'm affraid I may have a deffective drive but im not sure, this is my first HD larger than 60gigs haha..anyway any input would be good, ill keep you posted as to how it seems to be performing with windows installed. Thanks all

05-19-2007, 01:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,012	It seems like its failing... unless Seagate made the hard drives like that. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

05-19-2007, 03:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
kevo84 New Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2	probably yeah i think its a defective drive. My old hard drive is doing something similar, but its obvious that its a head crash...it makes the symptomatic CLUNK spins back up and it does not do it at the same times like the new one does..its completely random. Besides that my old one does not make the hum/moaning type sound while its spinning down/up. I managed to get through the XP setup on the new drive, but not without missing files and .dll errors after it was installed...so im sure it is having some write issues. Plus during the installation, at the exact same point it would make spin down/up/hum....and continue on. It did this at least 10 times, exactly the same place in the installation. I put in my old hard drive to see if I might have a bad IDE controller or something, and it went through the same point in the installation fine. oh well guess i get to see what new eggs RMA is like yippee! Last edited by kevo84; 05-19-2007 at 03:37 PM.

05-19-2007, 11:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,012	ok I have an old connner phipherals 40MB hdd that does that... it runs for 3 secs, dies, and runs again, dies, ect... their RMA is nice, thats what I heard __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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