broken hard drive???

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

I have a lot of reasons to believe my hard drive is broken, even after reinstall of windows same problems, so is there a program that can check to make sure??

KillrBuckeye · Aug 31, 2006

Sure, you can go to Western Digital's site and download diagnostic tools to run off a floppy disk, or from Windows if it is stable enough. Alternatively, you can burn The Ultimate Boot CD (Google it to find it), which contains hard drive diagnostic tools for many manufacturers.

Just curious though: Why do you think it's a hard drive problem?

Adragontattoo · Aug 31, 2006

What are the issues? enough people here that we may be able to pinpoint it a bit faster then the test will.

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

when i run most programs {msn, some tv prgram, winamp or some other prgrams, the just dnt run or install, keep getting the "do you want to report this error"}. Sound doesnt work after a while with games, WMP. rite now i hear a loud buzzing from HD. These problems happen even after a fresh reinstall. The past 2 months i have at least reinstalled windows 5 -7 times. UT2K4 load slower, and i get pauses

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

download this ?? http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=15&swid=3

i downlaod rar or zip, i get the message, it is corrupt, i tried it even with ^^

here is a pic : http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/4457/untitleduo5.jpg

i tried saving it in desktop, same thing.

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AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

damn its getting louder and louder!!

KillrBuckeye · Aug 31, 2006

Can you use another computer to download the DOS version of the diagnostics and create the bootable floppy? It definitely sounds like you're experiencing filesystem corruption, but this can be caused by things other than a faulty HDD. The loud noise is definitely not good though.

Adragontattoo · Aug 31, 2006

what is your PSU?
Do you have a different PSU that you could test with?

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

no i dnt have another PSU, i have the stock one that came with the case 450watt antec

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

this is the message i get when i try to play an audio file with WMP : http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/2418/untitledxb9.jpg

and i will burn a bootable cd with that dos file (i dnt have floppy drive) and try it later today.

but i can play audio with Helium music manager fine :S

jiggamanjb · Aug 31, 2006

May possibly be WinXP corruption and not the HD. Do you run a reg & HD cleaner? If not try CCLeaner. Also try Ultimate boot CD as Killr suggested. It is always an amazing CD to have around all the time anyway!

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

^^^i run ccleaner every now and then, these problems always come, even after fresh install of OS

UPDATE ON PROBLEMS:

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/5563/untitledrk5.jpg
Look at that pic, my theme is half classic, half modern, it keeps switchin every now and then, the language bar is present, every time i remove it, restart pc, it comes back.

i burned the diagnostic file to cd as "image file" on nero (as instructed to do so on WD's page) and it doesnt boot. I put CD-rom as priority, 1st in line, even then it didint boot. My second copy of the CD that i burnt didnt work either. im lost help please

KillrBuckeye · Aug 31, 2006

afg34 said:
^^^i run ccleaner every now and then, these problems always come, even after fresh install of OS

UPDATE ON PROBLEMS:

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/5563/untitledrk5.jpg
Look at that pic, my theme is half classic, half modern, it keeps switchin every now and then, the language bar is present, every time i remove it, restart pc, it comes back.

i burned the diagnostic file to cd as "image file" on nero (as instructed to do so on WD's page) and it doesnt boot. I put CD-rom as priority, 1st in line, even then it didint boot. My second copy of the CD that i burnt didnt work either. im lost help please

Burn the Ultimate Boot CD. It creates an .iso file that you can open in Nero and immediately burn. This CD contains the WD diagnostic tools that you need.

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

i run it, i come to a dos interface, it says:

[DR-DOS] - A :/>

wat do i type??

KillrBuckeye · Aug 31, 2006

afg34 said:
i run it, i come to a dos interface, it says:

[DR-DOS] - A :/>

wat do i type??

Run what? The Ultimate Boot CD should boot and bring you to a text-based menu where you can choose from many different applications. If you're not getting this, then you did something wrong.

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

KillrBuckeye said:
Run what? The Ultimate Boot CD should boot and bring you to a text-based menu where you can choose from many different applications. If you're not getting this, then you did something wrong.

S#@$, i burnt hte wrong file then, i download it, burnt it tried it, didnt even boo t up, then i extracted the downloaded file and burn it, didint wrk, i extract that and get like 14 files but this time instead of "burn image file" i selected "bootable data cd", and it got me into that dos screen. So i don't know what to do.

KillrBuckeye · Aug 31, 2006

The file you download is an executable if I remember correctly. Run that file and it will create a .iso file. Start Nero and then open the .iso file by going to File => Open. Burn the CD and then boot with it.

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

i will try, thnx

Kendan · Aug 31, 2006

you have to use "burn image" and not burn the .iso as a file.

AFG34 · Aug 31, 2006

i ran the test, no errors found

wat else could be the problem

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