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Basically ive had persistent problems with my main hard drive (250 gb WD, now 500gb WD) getting corrupted and loosing all data on it. What happens is that it will either say that no boot drive is present or it will start to load windows + reboot during the loading.
This has happened 4 times since XMAS and each time windows is basically unable to do anything to the drive (install/repair) and i've had to use the WD boot disc to format it. The drive randomly seems to fail the WD drive tests either straight away (saying cable error, using 2 different cables and multiple SATA ports with both HDD's), or it will work perfectly for the entire test.
I thought the HD was borked and got a nice 500gb replacement last week and after 2 days i had EXACTLY the same problem again and had to do a complete reformat + reinstall. To make it even more frustrating the drive has now started crashing randomly while you are using the PC, which never happened before.
Throughout all of these troubles, the IDE drive (which is a 250 gb maxtor), has continued to work perfectly and be a nice backup for when these crashes happen. I have tried two different SATA cables and it hasnt stopped the crashes, so could it be that the SATA controller is just screwed and i need to get a new MB? How hard is it going to be to get an RMA when the problem is intermittent like this?
My rig is:
6600 C2D
ASUS P5w DH delux (going by memory, it has built in wi-fi)
2 gb gskill
(no overclock or any changes from standard since the first crash with the original 250gb drive)
Thanks for any advice
This has happened 4 times since XMAS and each time windows is basically unable to do anything to the drive (install/repair) and i've had to use the WD boot disc to format it. The drive randomly seems to fail the WD drive tests either straight away (saying cable error, using 2 different cables and multiple SATA ports with both HDD's), or it will work perfectly for the entire test.
I thought the HD was borked and got a nice 500gb replacement last week and after 2 days i had EXACTLY the same problem again and had to do a complete reformat + reinstall. To make it even more frustrating the drive has now started crashing randomly while you are using the PC, which never happened before.
Throughout all of these troubles, the IDE drive (which is a 250 gb maxtor), has continued to work perfectly and be a nice backup for when these crashes happen. I have tried two different SATA cables and it hasnt stopped the crashes, so could it be that the SATA controller is just screwed and i need to get a new MB? How hard is it going to be to get an RMA when the problem is intermittent like this?
My rig is:
6600 C2D
ASUS P5w DH delux (going by memory, it has built in wi-fi)
2 gb gskill
(no overclock or any changes from standard since the first crash with the original 250gb drive)
Thanks for any advice
