Wierd HDD problem. Help

suraswami · Jul 9, 2008

I bought 2 seagate 500GB drives.

This sucker here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

One was good. The other one has a wierd problem.

Bios recogonises the HDD. Post also shows it. Windows recogonised it correctly. Allows to do a quick format. Can assign drive letter. But cannot copy any files to the drive. Cannot run any HDD speed test software on it. Tried HDTach, NVidia and Crystal CPUmark. Windows hangs or waits for ever.

Used the Seagate CD to format the drive from DOS. Formatted fine. But same case cannot copy files.

Used Seagate tools to format within windows. Took almost 1 hr to format 99% and stayed there for over 20 minutes. Then when re-booted the machine XP will not boot at all if the drive is attached.

Is the drive F..d up? Should I do a low level format to see if there are any bad sectors? If so what is the tool name (forgot sorry).

Help.

JoshBrunelle · Jul 9, 2008

Try changing ports? Sounds like a pretty crazy problem.

suraswami · Jul 9, 2008

Tried 2 ports from mobo, from a pci sata controller and totally a different mobo too.

JoshBrunelle · Jul 9, 2008

The egg is great with RMAs, I would say it isn't worth your time trying to diagnose it. Can you view the drives SMART data? TPU hosts hwinfo which can view it. If there are ANY problems with the SMART data, just RMA it.

suraswami · Jul 9, 2008

no I bought from a TPU member here.

newtekie1 · Jul 9, 2008

RMA it to Seagate, it might have a bad firmware on it.

JoshBrunelle · Jul 9, 2008

^^ Yes yes, Seagate is great with RMAs. RMA'd a old, dead 200GB IDE Maxtor from before they even bought them and they still honored the warranty. (plus it was a refurb in the first place)

suraswami · Jul 9, 2008

Actually the guy who I bought from is awesome. He refunded the money for one drive. So I am good.

On a side note, the drive is OEM for system builders. So cannot claim RMA.

suraswami · Jul 9, 2008

newtekie1 said:
RMA it to Seagate, it might have a bad firmware on it.

Curious, how to update the firmware?

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System Name	---
Processor	FX 8350 @ 4.00 Ghz with 1.28v
Motherboard	Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 v4.0, Hacked Bios F4.x
Cooling	Silenx 4 pipe Tower cooler + 2 x Cougar 120mm fan, 3 x 120mm, 1 x 200 mm Red LED fan
Memory	Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 16GB + Patriot Memory DDR3 1866 16GB
Video Card(s)	Asus R9 290 OC @ GPU - 1050, MEM - 1300
Storage	Inland 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD for OS, WDC Black - 2TB + 1TB Storage, Inland 480GB SSD - Games
Display(s)	3 x 1080P LCDs - Acer 25" + Acer 23" + HP 23"
Case	AeroCool XPredator X3
Audio Device(s)	Built-in Realtek
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000 Modular
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

Processor	FX-8350
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Cooling	Corsair H60
Memory	16GB G.Skill Ripjaws
Video Card(s)	XFX 7870
Storage	120GB OCZ SSD, 2x1TB storage
Display(s)	Asus 27" IPS, Samsung 23" secondary
Case	Cooler Master Cosmos
Power Supply	Corsair 650w
Software	Win7 Ultimate

System Name	---
Processor	FX 8350 @ 4.00 Ghz with 1.28v
Motherboard	Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 v4.0, Hacked Bios F4.x
Cooling	Silenx 4 pipe Tower cooler + 2 x Cougar 120mm fan, 3 x 120mm, 1 x 200 mm Red LED fan
Memory	Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 16GB + Patriot Memory DDR3 1866 16GB
Video Card(s)	Asus R9 290 OC @ GPU - 1050, MEM - 1300
Storage	Inland 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD for OS, WDC Black - 2TB + 1TB Storage, Inland 480GB SSD - Games
Display(s)	3 x 1080P LCDs - Acer 25" + Acer 23" + HP 23"
Case	AeroCool XPredator X3
Audio Device(s)	Built-in Realtek
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000 Modular
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

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Storage	500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache
Display(s)	Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28"
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	Onboard is good enough for me
Power Supply	eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

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