I bought a new computer and in less than 5 months, "it" broke 2 harddisks!!!
I told my provider this was too much of a coincidence, especially since both HD's "broke" in the same way: physically, they seemed to be OK, because Norton ghost and scandisk told me that my drives are OK, that is before the BIOS stopped detecting them, that is.
So in short: after 3 months, the 1st HD broke down (WD of 40GB): the BIOS wouldn't detect it anymore. This disk was still in warantee and was replaced by another one. At that time I added one of my old HDs as a primary slave (Maxtor, 5GB, 4 years old) and after 1 month that old HD broke down: first my machine (athlon XP 1600) worked without errors, but then suddenly became slower than a 486 with 4 mb trying to run Win98, apparently due to malfunctioning of the primary slave (which on top of that was empty!!!).
My provider analysed my PC and stated "bad luck for you", even though I have a feeling that somehow my athlon is destroying the HDs...
As soon as I got my "repaired" machine back, I put another HD as primary slave (this time a cheaper HD, because I'm running out on both money AND on HDs) and got an immediate response:
primary master stopped working immediatly, throwing my winXP into a perpetual rebooting loop (preceded by a blue screen telling me my primary HD is corrupt). Removing the slave disk didn't help...
So now I've got the impression by machine just "ate" it's 3rd HD within 5 months, but I'm still awaiting their findings, although I really don't expect much from them anymore. They are pissed off (as if they have more reasons to be pissed of than I do?????)
My provider tells me it's impossible, but I have the very strong feeling that the machine is destroying the HDs.
Is this possible? Can the damage be due to faulty IDE cables, faulty motherboard or power unit????
Or perhaps do we have to blame the laws of Murphy? Or very maybe this is the revenge of HD killing aliens from outer space?
I dunno anymore. I once had a 31/2 inch diskdrive that destroyed floppy disks, which was simple to proove with a set of cheap brandnew tested floppies, but this situation is far more serious, especially since the garantee they give for a HD is only 5 months...
Any help, even a very short answer would be greatly appreciated.
Greetings, JM.
I told my provider this was too much of a coincidence, especially since both HD's "broke" in the same way: physically, they seemed to be OK, because Norton ghost and scandisk told me that my drives are OK, that is before the BIOS stopped detecting them, that is.
So in short: after 3 months, the 1st HD broke down (WD of 40GB): the BIOS wouldn't detect it anymore. This disk was still in warantee and was replaced by another one. At that time I added one of my old HDs as a primary slave (Maxtor, 5GB, 4 years old) and after 1 month that old HD broke down: first my machine (athlon XP 1600) worked without errors, but then suddenly became slower than a 486 with 4 mb trying to run Win98, apparently due to malfunctioning of the primary slave (which on top of that was empty!!!).
My provider analysed my PC and stated "bad luck for you", even though I have a feeling that somehow my athlon is destroying the HDs...
As soon as I got my "repaired" machine back, I put another HD as primary slave (this time a cheaper HD, because I'm running out on both money AND on HDs) and got an immediate response:
primary master stopped working immediatly, throwing my winXP into a perpetual rebooting loop (preceded by a blue screen telling me my primary HD is corrupt). Removing the slave disk didn't help...
So now I've got the impression by machine just "ate" it's 3rd HD within 5 months, but I'm still awaiting their findings, although I really don't expect much from them anymore. They are pissed off (as if they have more reasons to be pissed of than I do?????)
My provider tells me it's impossible, but I have the very strong feeling that the machine is destroying the HDs.
Is this possible? Can the damage be due to faulty IDE cables, faulty motherboard or power unit????
Or perhaps do we have to blame the laws of Murphy? Or very maybe this is the revenge of HD killing aliens from outer space?
I dunno anymore. I once had a 31/2 inch diskdrive that destroyed floppy disks, which was simple to proove with a set of cheap brandnew tested floppies, but this situation is far more serious, especially since the garantee they give for a HD is only 5 months...
Any help, even a very short answer would be greatly appreciated.
Greetings, JM.
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