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Faulty Harddrive?

  • 30-03-2006 7:25pm
    #1
    Callan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭


    I bought this 250GB harddrive about a month ago. I think it may be faulty :mad: .

    I have the drive partition as follows, 40 GB for windows, remained for storage.

    It has XP PRO SP2 installed as the operating system.

    I also have a 180GB SATA hitachi deskstar and a 80GB IDE IBM deskstar.

    Every now and again when I boot up, chkdsk runs on the new drive (either partition).

    I have copied executale files from the hitachi to the new drive (either partition) when I try to run these I get errors saying the file is corrupt, however these files runs fine on the hitachi and also when copied to the IDE drive. I have tried this with numerous files.

    I ran the Western Digital data lifegaurd diagnotic dos tool on the drive which reported that the drive had no errors.

    I deleted all the partitions on the drive and started again (reinstalled windows). Since reinstalling windows on the drive (yesterday), chkdsk has not run at start up, but the files still won't copy over properly.

    I have an A-bit NF7-S motherboard, which has all drivers up to date including the sata drivers.

    Is there something I may be doing wrong, or is the drive a heap of ****.

    Can anyone recommend anything I could to to sort this?

    I'm begining to regreat not getting another hitachi

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    Callan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Callan


    anyone?


  • #3
    timeout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭timeout


    Well you can go to WD site and download a bootable diagnositcs cd. It basicly checks the HD for faults. Do the advanced test should take a couple of hours but will report any problems with the drive.


  • #4
    Callan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Callan


    timeout wrote:
    Well you can go to WD site and download a bootable diagnositcs cd. It basicly checks the HD for faults. Do the advanced test should take a couple of hours but will report any problems with the drive.

    Yeah, I tried that, it reported no errors. Does that definitely mean the drive is fine?


  • #5
    timeout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭timeout


    I ran the Western Digital data lifegaurd diagnotic dos tool on the drive which reported that the drive had no errors.
    Sorry,don't know how I managed to miss that bit. In my experience, yes drive is fine. The chkdsk has stoped which is good, but exes copied from one drive to the other won't work. No, can't think of anything of the top of my head that could be causing it.


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