Failing drives?

JLuchinski

JLuchinski

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Kind of a long story so bear with me. So last week I got a new motherboard/cpu and I tried putting in my current hard drive which is a Western Digital. It booted up, made it to the Windows logo for about a second and then got a BSOD for about second then would reboot and give me the option to launch Windows normally or start Windows repair. So I pegged it to the fact that my old motherboard was a Gigabyte and the new one is an MSI so I have to re-install Window. So I found another hard drive which is the exact same one and loaded Windows on to it. It was working fine for about 5 days until last night, I did a restart and it did the exact same thing, made it to the Windows logo for about 5 seconds then BSOD. So I just figured this board is a POS so I put my old motherboard back in and the same thing. So I did a system repair or whatever and it didn't work. So after that I put the new motherboard back in to reinstall Windows again then it did a check disk repair and now it's working. I am really confused, I'm really considering taking this board back and getting a new hard drive and reinstalling Windows on my old system. What do you guys think? Sorry for the long confusing post.
 
They're both 500gb Western Digital Caviar Blue, model #WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0. One got dropped from about 4 feet while turned on in an external enclosure, it now clicks and doesn't work anymore, thank God I got my pictures before that happened. So I'm using the one for now, what is a good program to test for errors?
 
Aastii said:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=3&lang=en

Always use the manufacturer's diagnostic tools if available

If that shows errors, new drive on the way would be my recommendation, no point in just prolonging the inevitable
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Thanks a million, you rock. It didn't pass the quick test and it didn't take long to fail the extended test. What's a good reliable hard drive? I don't think I'll be going with Western Digital again. Is there a big difference between SATA and SATA 3?
 
You only have either Seagate/Samsung or Western Digital. And I'll always recommend WD over Seagate.
 
I would go WD again if I were you, even though 1 (out of thousands and thousands of drives they make) has failed on you
 
OK, I'll be sure to get the in store product replacement this time. It's just weird how they both had the exact same issue, I wonder what would have caused it? I also have a Seagate drive that I tried installing Windows on but windows wasn't able to find it during installation so now I'm using it as a backup for pictures and such, I think I'll just get a big flash drive as extra backup.
 
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Trying to install windows 7? If running in raid or ahci mode you may need the sata controller driver before the install can see it.
 
johnb35 said:
Trying to install windows 7? If running in raid or ahci mode you may need the sata controller driver before the install can see it.
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Well I had an unexpected bill come up and I had to sell my I7 chip and I returned the motherboard and RAM so I am now running my older Dual Core system. I didn't change any of the BIOS settings with the older board and Windows installed faster then it did with the "bad" hard drives. And games like Crysis and BF3 are running really well maxed out with the exception of low AA so it just goes to show how much a hard drive with so many errors can effect system performance. Thanks to everyone for the help, I don't know where I would be without this forum and all the awesome supprt. :good:
 
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