kevo84

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

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

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kevo84

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

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

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