Samsung HD160JJ/P crapped out.

Bob692006

Bob692006

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I bought a new case, mobo, CPU, and GPU for a major system upgrade, using the RAM and two 160 GB HDD's from my old comp. I put everything together yesterday but only installed the Samsung HDD mentioned in the title. I reformatted the drive, making it one single partition, and re-installed Windows XP Professional SP 2 last night and left the computer running to do updates throughout the night. When I went to use the computer this morning, it froze up, I did a hard reboot and received an error about idapnp.sys being missing or corrupted. I tried reinstalling using Windows Recovery to no avail, so I decided to just reinstall Windows again, since the install was fresh anyways, but the install froze at 92%. After about 20 minutes I did a hard reboot again but then the HDD wasn't being picked up by the BIOS. I'm thinking I may have ruined the HDD when I rebooted during the install, even tried it on a different system with the same result of BIOS not picking up the drive. Everything is plugged in properly, the data and power cables are new, reset BIOS settings, not jumper's since the drive is SATA. I've got the other HDD still and had planned on getting a new, bigger HDD so if I have to chunk it no big deal but wanted to make sure there wasn't anything else I could check before hand. Thanks.
 
I don't know what broke it but it could just be the control board that has a problem. That said, if there's nothing on the drive that you need the easiest thing to do is replace it.
 
I'm not sure either, I had seen some decreased performance in my old system though so I think it may have been going out and the increased stress from formatting twice and running a Windows install three times. Not sure but I did get what I wanted out of it, got the second 160 Gig in my system now and I'm buying a 500 Gig around the first anyways, was just curious if anyone had any ideas.
 
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