What's with my HD?

[It_The_Cow]

During POST, my Maxtor 20 gb hard drives "fails." However, it can be read and write fine when I'm in Windows. What's with? All the cables and jumpers are correct. I haven't done anything lately that would change it either

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by It_The_Cow
During POST, my Maxtor 20 gb hard drives "fails." However, it can be read and write fine when I'm in Windows. What's with? All the cables and jumpers are correct. I haven't done anything lately that would change it either

is it making any noise?
does it run hot? if so it could be dieing soon.. but fi not..
maybe your bios arent setup right, try setting them to defaults and reboot and see what it says.. you could try flashing your bios as well.
other then that, u may have something wrong with the hdd bios, or its something lil and simple.

[windyridge]

i would back up the hard drive before you try messing with it
i had a laptop harddrive that mad noise and had errors and i fixed it by repartitioning the hard drive
hope it doesn't die and good luck

[Breadfan]

How does it "fail"? Will it still boot after the drive fails? Perhaps its not being auto detected correctly.

I'd back my data up just incase.

Then you might go ahead and take auto detect off, and just have the bios detect it once and keep it there.

Mike

[It_The_Cow]

Originally posted by Dissolved


is it making any noise?
does it run hot? if so it could be dieing soon.. but fi not..
maybe your bios arent setup right, try setting them to defaults and reboot and see what it says.. you could try flashing your bios as well.
other then that, u may have something wrong with the hdd bios, or its something lil and simple. No, no, and most likely. It's got two months left on it's warranty, so I wouldn't doubt it. Strabge thing is that it just happened overnight. No clicks, no drops in performance.I'll shoot Maxtor an email to see if it qualifies as a RMA. I've reinstalled Win2k on another drive so I can backup all my files. I'd rather have the original HD working since it already has all of my drivers and programs preinstalled. I'll look into Ghosting it

[Breadfan]

Since you've only got 2 months of warranty left, I'd try to get an RMA.

I've had really good luck with harddrives, at work I've only had 2 fail, a Fujitsu and a WD. WD RMA'd pretty easily, but the Fujitsu RMA procedure was a dream come true.

They 2dayed me a replacement for free, let me ghost the defective drive, and I had like 2 weeks to ship the broken one to them! So, that system was down for only 2 days. Quite a good procedure.

Never RMA'd a maxtor, but to be on the safe side I'd go for it. Hopefully you have a spare drive you can ghost it too. If they work like Fujitsu though, that'd be great for you. You get the new drive, ghost it, then wipe the old one and send it back.

Mike

[It_The_Cow]

I just ran PowerMax Diagnostics and the results are in. The one at fault is officially messed up. The SMART feature of it has been ruined somehow. It also shows that the BIOS doesn't support it, but I'm running a second and identical HD that's working fine. I've tried manual detection, but still no go. Looks like it'll have to be an RMA

[Breadfan]

Just be happy this didn't happen 2 months from now ;)

Mike

[surfinguru]

*edit* meant to post as new thread. See thread titled "HD Issues"

[AMD'er]

Originally posted by Breadfan
Since you've only got 2 months of warranty left,

If you have 2 months left on your warranty I would go ahead and send it back. Its nothing like losing all your stuff unexpectedly. My 40gig went out once for now damn reason. I lost 32 gigs of music. I had not dropped or banged the drive. it just died. thats when I jumped to the 2 HD setup and about to add a third