2 Hard Drives broke in 1 week.

[lee87]

Last week my IDE maxtor 80GB HDD died after I was overclocking my pc. I thought overclocking couldn't break hard drives so I thought it was a coincidence, but now the spare HDD I was using (Maxtor IDE 20GB) has just done exactly the same after I tried overclocking again.

It's saying 'please select a proper boot device or insert boot media into boot device and try again' right after the bios post screen. The HDD's have been tried in another pc and they don't work either. They are both detected in the bios correctly still.

Is there anything that can be done to fix these hard drives or are they completly broke?

Thanks

 

[lee87]

Thanks, I have formatted the 20GB drive it and I'll put windows on tomorrow.

I didn't think of trying a format because when my 80GB hdd broke It wouldn't let me read from any other drives or format it.

 

[lee87]

My 80GB is dead but my 20GB is working again so I will get a new drive soon as I need more than 20GB.

I use the pc for gaming but probably will not use more than 80GB. Should I get the 80GB samsung/hitachi/seagate Sata II?
Basmic you suggested the western digital, the 80GB one is only SATA would I be better off getting this or getting a sata II HDD.

Is sata or sata II much faster than ide and would I be able to notice the difference.