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
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