Ok, Ive had this hard drive in my computer for about 2 years now, and about a month ago it began making a clicking noise, like it was skipping or something, it would still work for a lil while then it would completely freeze in windows to where i would have to turn of the power and turn it back on. So, I took out that hard drive and I have been running on a smaller hard drive until I can get a new one. And the other day this smaller repaclement drive began doing the same thing, except when i restart my PC it wont detect my hard drive unless i comletetly turn off my machine, when it does detect my hard drive it begins to boot windows, then it goes back to the DOS screen and says that there is a vailure reading from the drive, an error intializing VKD, and a stack overflow, then it tells me to restart my computer...... any cooments are welcome thanks.....
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Hard drive, dying?? dead?
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Two different failures on two different hard drives.
Seems that it has become the time for you to buy another one. Ed Fair
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Seems that it has become the time for you to buy another one. Ed Fair
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Both of the hard drives have had the same problems, worried that it might be another part of my computer that is causing the hard drives to fail, could it be heat or dust anything like that??? the smaller hard drive has also gave me errors before that were the same as the bigger one... I am just worried about buying a new hard drive and the same thign happening to it that happened to the other two...
Could be a controller problem leading to it, but the failure mode is probably 90% plus hard drive related. Maybe even higher. The failure to ID the second drive would probably be a better indicator that the drive was bad. Ed Fair
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I have just purchase a IBM DESKSTAR 80GB HARDRIVE model: IC35L0808AVVAO7-0. When i configured it to be a master drive my PC could not detect it. My BIOS setting are correct. The only way i could get it to detect was to configure it to the 32gb clip but this only gives me less than half the drives capacity please help me thankyou.
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