western digital 150gb Raptor not working

[nasvemos671]

Ok, this is the first time I've ever built an entire rig from the bottom up.
Here are the specs:
Dual EVGA 8800 GT''s
thermaltake va8000 armor series
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R x2
ASUS CROSSHAIR AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor
ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ900 ATX12V / EPS12V 900W Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply
G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit

here is my dilemma.
I also bought a 150 gb WD Raptor. I installed it, and the bios recognized it, so I had to use the windows storage manager for the windows to recognize it in "My Computer" and it worked for a day. I come home from work today and it shows up once in the boot menu, and then i install a windows update, and then it doesnt ever appear again. I tried using a new sata cable, moving it to a different sata port. none of this worked. I unplugged the hard drive that does work and plugged JUST the raptor in and got a disk error as expected. I'm just trying to exhaust all options before I put in an RMA for this drive. it doesnt even show up in the bios anymore.

thanks in advance

[fritzman]

Try downloading Western Digital's 'Data Lifeguard' and see if you can't sort the drive out that way... http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1

Hopefully it's something simpler than a stuffed drive.

[nasvemos671]

Yeah I tried that too, and its just giving me "there is no hard drive other than the windows drive"

[fritzman]

Okay... sounds like time to RMA

[nasvemos671]

...*sigh, very well, hopefully it'll be quick, i cant wait to see what this thing can do,

[nasvemos671]

well i did some more trouble shooting on this today, i took it out of its mounting bracket and actually watched it while I turned the PC on, and it made *clicking* noise which i dont know if raptors are supposed to do that, but its definitely getting power, but just not getting into the computer I already put my RMA request in, so I'll be sending it out tommorow

[nasvemos671]

Hehe, this is really funny, my dad told me to drop it a foot off the ground onto to try and dislodge the head...anyone ever heard of this?

I thought it was pretty funny.

[tuskenraider]

Hehe, this is really funny, my dad told me to drop it a foot off the ground onto to try and dislodge the head...anyone ever heard of this?

I thought it was pretty funny.That's called an "advanced RMA drive diagnosis: dead". ;)