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Just got my first SATA hard drive... a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250gb
Now, some strange things have been happening. Firstly it seemed to work, detected by the bios on boot, but it wasent visible in my computer.
I digged around a bit, found it under the computer management in the administrative tools and started formatting it for NTFS.
About 20 mins my pc crashed, not sure why but i dont think it was the hard drive. Reseted, everything seemed fine, the drive was even showing up in my computer. Started to format for NTFS again. After about 45mins pc crashed, not to do with the hard drive again. I hit the reset button again and it started up fine.
Started formatting again, using the command prompt so i had get a more precise percentage. After 20mins it hit 33% and it stuck there. 2 hours later still 33% so i cancelled it. I tried to format again and then everything froze, a complete crash.
When i rebooted there was an alarm going off inside the case, so I investigated and it was another hard drive, 1 of my 2 ATA hard drives, which i had been using as a backup. I unplugged it and tried to get the computer to boot, but it kept messing up for odd reasons, freezing as windows loaded or not detecting the main hard drive.
I reseted my bios and it solved the booting problems but ever since it hasent even been spinning up no matter what i have tried. Also the ata backup drive keeps alarming the minute the i connect it to power. I've tried a different power supply and a different computer and both hard drives seem dead.
The ata hard drive and the Sata were both on the same cable coming from the power supply, so the only thing i can imagine is that one of them went and took the other one with them. Is this normal?, is there anything im missing that might fix up one of the drives, especially the ata one just long enough for me to get the data off it?
I know the freezer trick but i've never had a drive alarm on me like that so its not just a motor connection problem or missaligned head or something freezers have fixed for me before.
Now, some strange things have been happening. Firstly it seemed to work, detected by the bios on boot, but it wasent visible in my computer.
I digged around a bit, found it under the computer management in the administrative tools and started formatting it for NTFS.
About 20 mins my pc crashed, not sure why but i dont think it was the hard drive. Reseted, everything seemed fine, the drive was even showing up in my computer. Started to format for NTFS again. After about 45mins pc crashed, not to do with the hard drive again. I hit the reset button again and it started up fine.
Started formatting again, using the command prompt so i had get a more precise percentage. After 20mins it hit 33% and it stuck there. 2 hours later still 33% so i cancelled it. I tried to format again and then everything froze, a complete crash.
When i rebooted there was an alarm going off inside the case, so I investigated and it was another hard drive, 1 of my 2 ATA hard drives, which i had been using as a backup. I unplugged it and tried to get the computer to boot, but it kept messing up for odd reasons, freezing as windows loaded or not detecting the main hard drive.
I reseted my bios and it solved the booting problems but ever since it hasent even been spinning up no matter what i have tried. Also the ata backup drive keeps alarming the minute the i connect it to power. I've tried a different power supply and a different computer and both hard drives seem dead.
The ata hard drive and the Sata were both on the same cable coming from the power supply, so the only thing i can imagine is that one of them went and took the other one with them. Is this normal?, is there anything im missing that might fix up one of the drives, especially the ata one just long enough for me to get the data off it?
I know the freezer trick but i've never had a drive alarm on me like that so its not just a motor connection problem or missaligned head or something freezers have fixed for me before.