I will outline everything that has happened so far.
Bought a new hard drive. WD 20gb 7200rpm.
Made a weird sound the instant I powered it on.
Turned computer off, then back on, and the sound was gone.
Formatted, and installed windows 2k.
Made some weird sounds for a second while installing.
Installed programs, no problems for a week, till I had to reformat.
Reformat hangs at 0 percent for 5 or so minutes.
Hangs again at 50 51 52 53 54 percents for about a minute a piece.
Continues from 54 to 100percent with no problems at least of what I saw which was most.
Install programs, games, etc.
In every game every few minutes the game will freeze for up to 5 seconds then continue fine until it does it again a few minutes later.
Happens in every game, with two different video cards.
Seems to happen more often when more things are happening on screen(redeemer explosion and weird effects like that).
Seemed to happen less while playing Counterstike when It went fine for an hour or so.
Counter strike was installed after many programs putting it further up on the hard drive, which makes sense since the format hung at 0 for a long time, where UT2K3 was installed as one of the first programs.
Wester Digital diagnostics wont run quick test. and gives error 0199.
Old hard drive works fine with same components drivers, etc.
So, its a hard drive problem. Most likely anyway, but is there anyway to repair it?
WD warranty says I cant send it in cause it was sold to me out of region, or to a system manufacturer. Whatever that means.
Forgot one thing. When I reformated. I didnt do it the same way as usual. I accidentally after reformating, and copying files went in and did the same thing again. So, it copied the windows files over the ones that were already on it.
Also, maybe I didnt install it right, or something. Do I need drivers for this drive since its newer, maybe? I never needed anything for the old one.
Maybe its a new drive, and need to be broken in?
Maybe my PSU isnt powerfull enough since it is faster then the old one?
Maybe the faster hard drive is causing problems with bad ram that dont happen with older slower hard drive?
Anything you can think of.
Bought a new hard drive. WD 20gb 7200rpm.
Made a weird sound the instant I powered it on.
Turned computer off, then back on, and the sound was gone.
Formatted, and installed windows 2k.
Made some weird sounds for a second while installing.
Installed programs, no problems for a week, till I had to reformat.
Reformat hangs at 0 percent for 5 or so minutes.
Hangs again at 50 51 52 53 54 percents for about a minute a piece.
Continues from 54 to 100percent with no problems at least of what I saw which was most.
Install programs, games, etc.
In every game every few minutes the game will freeze for up to 5 seconds then continue fine until it does it again a few minutes later.
Happens in every game, with two different video cards.
Seems to happen more often when more things are happening on screen(redeemer explosion and weird effects like that).
Seemed to happen less while playing Counterstike when It went fine for an hour or so.
Counter strike was installed after many programs putting it further up on the hard drive, which makes sense since the format hung at 0 for a long time, where UT2K3 was installed as one of the first programs.
Wester Digital diagnostics wont run quick test. and gives error 0199.
Old hard drive works fine with same components drivers, etc.
So, its a hard drive problem. Most likely anyway, but is there anyway to repair it?
WD warranty says I cant send it in cause it was sold to me out of region, or to a system manufacturer. Whatever that means.
Forgot one thing. When I reformated. I didnt do it the same way as usual. I accidentally after reformating, and copying files went in and did the same thing again. So, it copied the windows files over the ones that were already on it.
Also, maybe I didnt install it right, or something. Do I need drivers for this drive since its newer, maybe? I never needed anything for the old one.
Maybe its a new drive, and need to be broken in?
Maybe my PSU isnt powerfull enough since it is faster then the old one?
Maybe the faster hard drive is causing problems with bad ram that dont happen with older slower hard drive?
Anything you can think of.
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