Faulty Harddrive?

callan · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:44

I bought a Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache harddrive about a month ago. I think it may be faulty .

I have the drive partition as follows, 40 GB for windows, remained for storage.

It has XP PRO SP2 installed as the operating system.

I also have a 180GB SATA hitachi deskstar and a 80GB IDE IBM deskstar.

Every now and again when I boot up, chkdsk runs on the new drive (either partition).

I have copied executale files from the hitachi to the new drive (either partition) when I try to run these I get errors saying the file is corrupt, however these files runs fine on the hitachi and also when copied to the IDE drive. I have tried this with numerous files.

I ran the Western Digital data lifegaurd diagnotic dos tool on the drive which reported that the drive had no errors.

I deleted all the partitions on the drive and started again (reinstalled windows). But still have the same problems (chkdsk, files corrupting)

I have an A-bit NF7-S motherboard, which has all drivers up to date including the sata drivers.

Is there something I may be doing wrong, or is the drive a heap of ****.

Can anyone recommend anything I could to to sort this?

I'm begining to regreat not getting another hitachi

Thanks in advance

nyzrox · 3 Apr 2006 at 02:35

all i can recommend to you is dnt buy hitachis

Jimi · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:08

nyzrox said:
all i can recommend to you is dnt buy hitachis

What's wrong with Hitachi?

Callan, have you tried performing a full format of the drive?

nyzrox · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:10

hitachi deskstar? meaning deathstar. i had 2 die on me, i wont be buying them again, 13 months n they both went

callan · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:28

Jimi said:
What's wrong with Hitachi?

Callan, have you tried performing a full format of the drive?

Yeah, I tried that but no joy

Jimi · 3 Apr 2006 at 13:46

See if Western Digital have a support E-mail address and explain them what's wrong and see if you should RMA the drive. If I were in the same situation, I would RMA it. But send an E-mail just to be sure.