Synesthesia
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This is becoming very annoying. A few weeks ago i bought a Samsung 750gig hard drive and installed it with relative ease. Unfortunately it ended up corrupting all of the files I had put on it, but none on the master 250gig Samsung HD. So I returned it for a replacement that I received yesterday. I booted up windows, and tried to format it. I woke up this morning and it claimed it had finished, yet it would not show up in my computer, or in the format/partition window I used. I then restarted the computer to see if the bios could see it....it couldn't. Then upon trying to start up Vistax64 the boot failed. I tried 10 times in various different ways but to no avail. I finally unplugged the new HD and guess what, it booted. My friend told me that I have to set it as a slave drive.....unfortunately neither my original or new hard drive came with any jumpers! They have the pins, but nothing to connect them. I looked through the manual and apparently not having any of the jumper on sets the 750gig to slave. So, what gives??? He even suggested that I install Vista on the new one with the main one unplugged, which did not work either and ended up both times with the computer freezing while starting the installation process. I do not know what to do.....and besides those problems the 750gig makes a clicking noise when it starts up, like a sata cable tapping against fan blades (all of my cables are secure). Is it broken? It didn't make that noise when I attempted to install it yesterday. Could Vista have completely destroyed it while attempting to format it? Ahhh! 
