I just wanted to make sure that a hard drive for someone whom I am trying to replace is actually bad, and that it's not just the sata wires or something.
It all started with a blue screen during boot, on an older dell desktop. It was the "unmountable boot volume" blue screen of death message, on a system with windows xp.
I was able to boot from a CD and and ran a chkdsk operation, there were many 'unreadable' or 'bad' sectors(don't remember the error message exactly, but something along those lines). also, when i booted into mini windows xp(from the cd), the "c:" drive had disappeared from windows explorer after a bit, and the computer was running extremely slow.
so now, how can i be sure that it's the hard drive(which, by the way, is a western digital caviar se serial ata - 160gb(model: wd1600jd - 75hbb0) and not the sata wires or anything? problem is, i took out the hard drive from the persons computer, but at home, none of my PCs are sata, they're all ultra-ata.
assuming the hard drive is bad; the old hard drive was SATA 1.5, most of the hard drives being sold now(for a decent price, at least) are SATA 3.0. how would i know(short of asking the retailer) if a certain SATA 3.0 hard drive will have a jumper setting that will allow it to operate on SATA 1.5? looking on newegg, none of the info mentions if any of the SATA 3.0 drives are 1.5 compatible.
thanks in advance
It all started with a blue screen during boot, on an older dell desktop. It was the "unmountable boot volume" blue screen of death message, on a system with windows xp.
I was able to boot from a CD and and ran a chkdsk operation, there were many 'unreadable' or 'bad' sectors(don't remember the error message exactly, but something along those lines). also, when i booted into mini windows xp(from the cd), the "c:" drive had disappeared from windows explorer after a bit, and the computer was running extremely slow.
so now, how can i be sure that it's the hard drive(which, by the way, is a western digital caviar se serial ata - 160gb(model: wd1600jd - 75hbb0) and not the sata wires or anything? problem is, i took out the hard drive from the persons computer, but at home, none of my PCs are sata, they're all ultra-ata.
assuming the hard drive is bad; the old hard drive was SATA 1.5, most of the hard drives being sold now(for a decent price, at least) are SATA 3.0. how would i know(short of asking the retailer) if a certain SATA 3.0 hard drive will have a jumper setting that will allow it to operate on SATA 1.5? looking on newegg, none of the info mentions if any of the SATA 3.0 drives are 1.5 compatible.
thanks in advance
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