I recently built my parents a PC out of some old spare parts I had lying around. Bottom line, I went thru 2 750gb and 2 1tb drives on their PC. Each of which let me install windows, but after about 30 minutes of use, windows would detect a problem and display a message that the drive was failing and must be replaced.
It was not a mistake by windows either, because after I replaced the drives, I tried hooking them up as secondary drives to recover some files and data, and there were bad sectors all over the place. I could access some folders, while others would just send the PC into an endless loop of loading (the spinning wheel/cursor of death) as soon as I clicked on certain folders.
These drives were sitting around for between 6 months and 2 years, so I guess its possible they all went bad, but highly improbable. My question is, am I really that unlucky that all 4 of my spare drives died in storage, or could something else be causing them to die?
The only thing i could think of is what if I accidently used a modular sata-power cable from the wrong PSU on the PSU in their PC...could that cause drives to die? Or are modular cables interchangeable as long as they use the same number of pins and the connectors fit?
It was not a mistake by windows either, because after I replaced the drives, I tried hooking them up as secondary drives to recover some files and data, and there were bad sectors all over the place. I could access some folders, while others would just send the PC into an endless loop of loading (the spinning wheel/cursor of death) as soon as I clicked on certain folders.
These drives were sitting around for between 6 months and 2 years, so I guess its possible they all went bad, but highly improbable. My question is, am I really that unlucky that all 4 of my spare drives died in storage, or could something else be causing them to die?
The only thing i could think of is what if I accidently used a modular sata-power cable from the wrong PSU on the PSU in their PC...could that cause drives to die? Or are modular cables interchangeable as long as they use the same number of pins and the connectors fit?
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