So I recently noticed my samsung hdd seemed to be performing poorly. I used DBAN to quick erase the drive and fill it with zero's.
I then clean installed windows 7 64-bit pro and was warned that the drive is likely to fail soon. So I carried on with the install and it seemed to work fine. When the installation was finished I kept getting warnings from windows that the drive would fail soon.
So I ran Seagate tools for dos, and performed the long test. After about 4-5hrs it was only 50% or so complete. So I left it overnight to complete the test, got up the next morning and it told me that it was unable to complete the test and the drive had failed. So I accepted that this drive is going to fail sooner rather than later and it needs replacing. I have had it for about 3-4 years so I guess this is expected.
I was able to boot up windows on the drive but still with the warnings.
So I purchased a new 1TB drive from amazon, a Western Digital Green drive. Model no: WD10EZRX-00L4HB0
When it arrived it put it in my machine and tried to install windows 7 again. However windows could not find my drive at all.
Upon inspection in BIOS the drive is there but has 0mb capacity. When originally turning on the computer with it in there, it takes a long time to check the IDE drives (about 20 seconds instead of the usual 5 seconds or so), and at the same time I can hear the new hdd making hissing and spinning noises.
I only have 1 sata data cable, so I managed to hook up an old IDE hdd that has a version of windows 7 on it, with the new drive connected via sata. In windows I tried to use disk management to format the new WD hdd, but it couldn't find it. Then I d/led the WD data lifeguard diagnostic tool in windows and that could not find the WD hdd either.
Finally I tried to use Seatools for DOS (i know the drive is WD but i read that this doesn't matter) to see if that could see the drive, and when trying to boot up i just got the error message:
"Error read partition table drive 00 sector 0BIOS reported 0 sectors/track, assuming 63"
(Or something like that, I didn't take note of the exact message and googled what I could remember and found that message.)
and seatools for DOS would not load up.
I'm assuming that this new hdd is faulty. My motherboard is quite old, a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-Sli, roughly 8 years old. It has Sata II ports and the new HDD is Sata III but I've read in various places that this wouldn't matter and the drive would just run at Sata II speeds.
So is it likely that this drive is faulty?
Should i attempt to return it to Amazon or RMA to WD?
Thanks for your help
I then clean installed windows 7 64-bit pro and was warned that the drive is likely to fail soon. So I carried on with the install and it seemed to work fine. When the installation was finished I kept getting warnings from windows that the drive would fail soon.
So I ran Seagate tools for dos, and performed the long test. After about 4-5hrs it was only 50% or so complete. So I left it overnight to complete the test, got up the next morning and it told me that it was unable to complete the test and the drive had failed. So I accepted that this drive is going to fail sooner rather than later and it needs replacing. I have had it for about 3-4 years so I guess this is expected.
I was able to boot up windows on the drive but still with the warnings.
So I purchased a new 1TB drive from amazon, a Western Digital Green drive. Model no: WD10EZRX-00L4HB0
When it arrived it put it in my machine and tried to install windows 7 again. However windows could not find my drive at all.
Upon inspection in BIOS the drive is there but has 0mb capacity. When originally turning on the computer with it in there, it takes a long time to check the IDE drives (about 20 seconds instead of the usual 5 seconds or so), and at the same time I can hear the new hdd making hissing and spinning noises.
I only have 1 sata data cable, so I managed to hook up an old IDE hdd that has a version of windows 7 on it, with the new drive connected via sata. In windows I tried to use disk management to format the new WD hdd, but it couldn't find it. Then I d/led the WD data lifeguard diagnostic tool in windows and that could not find the WD hdd either.
Finally I tried to use Seatools for DOS (i know the drive is WD but i read that this doesn't matter) to see if that could see the drive, and when trying to boot up i just got the error message:
"Error read partition table drive 00 sector 0BIOS reported 0 sectors/track, assuming 63"
(Or something like that, I didn't take note of the exact message and googled what I could remember and found that message.)
and seatools for DOS would not load up.
I'm assuming that this new hdd is faulty. My motherboard is quite old, a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-Sli, roughly 8 years old. It has Sata II ports and the new HDD is Sata III but I've read in various places that this wouldn't matter and the drive would just run at Sata II speeds.
So is it likely that this drive is faulty?
Should i attempt to return it to Amazon or RMA to WD?
Thanks for your help
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