Need some advice on a problem i appear to be having with Hard Drive's recently.
I used to have a 74Gb WD Raptor and a 150Gb WD Raptor (both less than a year old) installed in my current machine until i got back home from a LAN event in the UK. When i plugged everything back in, the machine wouldn't boot up intermittently and when it did boot up it would crash occasionally. Both drives started clicking when these crashes occured and so i was forced to remove them.
I managed to use an older Maxtor 200Gb (3 years old) to get my pc back up and running on a fresh install of XP and retrieved all the data from the 2 Raptors.
Yesterday the same problem happened with the Maxtor, i was in a game and the PC crashed, i rebooted and the drive started clicking and wouldn't load into Windows XP. I rebooted again and got invalid system disk error message. I then checked BIOS and the Maxtor drive is no longer detected.
So i'm looking for ideas on what is causing this to happen, i refuse to believe 3 HDD's can all have the same problem within 2 months of each other.
I used to have a 74Gb WD Raptor and a 150Gb WD Raptor (both less than a year old) installed in my current machine until i got back home from a LAN event in the UK. When i plugged everything back in, the machine wouldn't boot up intermittently and when it did boot up it would crash occasionally. Both drives started clicking when these crashes occured and so i was forced to remove them.
I managed to use an older Maxtor 200Gb (3 years old) to get my pc back up and running on a fresh install of XP and retrieved all the data from the 2 Raptors.
Yesterday the same problem happened with the Maxtor, i was in a game and the PC crashed, i rebooted and the drive started clicking and wouldn't load into Windows XP. I rebooted again and got invalid system disk error message. I then checked BIOS and the Maxtor drive is no longer detected.
So i'm looking for ideas on what is causing this to happen, i refuse to believe 3 HDD's can all have the same problem within 2 months of each other.