Hard Drive Defect

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biohazard435

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Hi all I have recentley bought a Maxtor DiomandMax 21 200 gig Hard Drive. The drive will work when I boot up the computer for a while and then freeze. If i restart the computer after that the Hard drive is not even detected. I tried to format and fix bad sectors with no luck. The hard drive doesn't shut off nor does it go past the zero track. The arm is not hitting or anything it sounds like all is fine. I tried to bring it back to stapled but they gave me a whole run around along with maxtor. Does anyone know of a fix for this? I would greatly appreciate it. On a side note I also tried to use this HD in a friends computer with the same results.

Im running Windows XP Home edition sp2. 1 gig Ram nvidia Geforce fx 5700 LE graphics. Intel Celeron D and Asus 7201 MOBO (I think thats the MOBO lol)
 
I just serviced two systems here where even a reinstall or simple trip into the F8 boot menu got nowhere. No clicking sounds but both drives were toast. You can easily read files and one was only a year old(Hitachi 80gb) while the other was several years old(WD 120gb ide).

At times the drives failed to be seen on the post screen while copying files off of them posed no problem. Creating a new primary? Out of the quesion! The WD drive diagnostic tool was used and found "no errors detected" on the 120gb. Then on the next attempt no drive could be found! Both drives on both systems were simply "replaced"!
 
The lack of detection can either be the drive itself or a flaky cable being intermittent. If you have another cable onhand give that a try as well as the Maxtor drive diagnostic tool. If it does turn out to be the drive most like the read/write heads are toast.

The WD tool first detected the 120 and later failed to see any drive after it reported that no errors were found. Yet you couldn't create a new partition on it while being able to copy files from it. That's one example of drive failure in progress if that turns out to be the problem you are seeing. But flat ribbon type cables are also known to dry out and be intermittent at times making a drive look bad.
 
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