Formatting Woes

[MickJ]

Hello everybody, I'm new here, and this is my first post.

A friend and I have just built the identical tower which is basically,

Athlon 3700, Asus A8N-E, ATI graphics etc. All the bits from Overclockers.

We both have Maxtor 80gb sata drives, well I've got 2 and mine all went well and still is.

The other however has a problem when trying to format the new drive. This is the second drive as the first one (brand new) booted Win 2000 Pro when I first booted up to format. We decided to format it anyway but it went very, very slowly and working it out would have taken over 4 hours to complete so we gave up.

The drive was exchanged no problem as it was a returned item but the new one does exactly the same thing but does'nt even get to the formatting progress bar or whatever it's called.

I have tried this drive in my machine and it behaves the same. I have also put an old ide drive in the other machine and it formats no problem.

So, is it possible to get 2 drives both with the same fault, one after the other. I can't really see it can be anything else apart from the drive but then I know little about these things.

We have ran out of idea's so it's gone back to O/C and will be tested before it can be exchanged.

Anyone seen similar problems as I may get it back if they find no fault.

Mick........

 

[basmic]

Do yourself a favour, and avoid Maxtor at all costs.

Go for Hitachi - if not, then Western Digital.

I've seen quite a few "my Maxtor just curled it's toes" threads in the last month here. Take a look here for yourself if you don't believe me.

 

[SiriusB]

The new Maxtors should be more reliable. Getting two duff HDDs in a row tho is pretty unlucky and probably rare even for Maxtor. I reckon either the whole batch is iffy or someone has been careless in the warehouse.

I agree with the previous poster tho in that you should try Hitachi or Western Digital over Maxtor. Samsung and Seagate are also quality manufacturers.

SiriusB

 

[MickJ]

Thank's for the replies, I'll see how it goes.

If it is a duff drive I'll try to change it for another brand.

 

[Street]

The new Maxtors should be more reliable. Getting two duff HDDs in a row tho is pretty unlucky and probably rare even for Maxtor.

I got 2 duff drives as replacements after RMAing a Maxtor drive that had failed after 6months of usage... Needless to say I changed to Western Digital after that.