Hard Drive Killer

[johnboy27]

I have a problem with my primary IDE channel on my mobo right now.Here are my symptoms.
1-some times my BIOS does not detect my hard drive
2-sometimes while my BIOS is detecting my hard drive it freezes and displays a bunch of weird characters
3-sometimes the computer crashes
I know this is the problem with mine as the manufacturer has said so and the board will be RMA'd in the next week.
Maybe you have the same problem.There is no way you have gone threw 6 hard drives unless you are either kicking the shit outta your computer or you "REALLY" have no clue what you are doing when working on your computer.

[sparsely]

/me thinks the culprit is this:




dodgy mobo

[lynx]

Originally posted by The Kiler@14 October 2003 - 02:54
This is the information on the "dead" hard drive. This HDD is on another computer.


ATA Device Properties
Model ID MDT MD200EB-11CSF0
Serial Number MDT-PMAAV2898313
Revision 04.01B04
Parameters 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 600 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 39102336
Buffer 2 MB (Dual Ported, Read Ahead)
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 40
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
Unformatted Capacity 22375 MB

ATA Device Features
SMART Supported
Security Mode Supported
Power Management Supported
Advanced Power Management Not Supported
Write Cache Supported
Host Protected Area Supported
Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
48-bit LBA Not Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Not Supported


Disk 0
Type: Uknown
Status: Unreadable
Partition Style: Not applicable
Capactiy: 0MB

So you have an disk with a bad partition table - is this what you call dead?

[boyzeee]

download discwizard 2003 from seagate, its free and will diagnose,re-format, and set up all drives. I repair pcs and this piece of software has accessed so called "dead" hardrives for me on a few occasions. it will even access an ntfs drive put in a fat32(win98 etc) based pc when put in as a slave. you have the option of making floppys to access in dos if req. it wont fix actual "dead" drives but may help you format and get the drive to be seen. also a note on ya mobo> have you installed a separate graphics card or sound card? if so you must disable the onboard built in features otherwise you will get conflicts. update ya bios with the latest version and maybe change ya battery if it quite an old board. do you have any beeps when you boot ie more than 1!? also try setting the mobo's settings to failsafe when installing xp and leave out things like modems and tv cards til it has setup and install them afterwards as these can give you blue screens in setup. hope this helps

[The Kiler]

Originally posted by lynx+14 October 2003 - 06:06--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lynx @ 14 October 2003 - 06:06)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-The Kiler@14 October 2003 - 02:54
This is the information on the "dead" hard drive. This HDD is on another computer.


ATA Device Properties
Model ID MDT MD200EB-11CSF0
Serial Number MDT-PMAAV2898313
Revision 04.01B04
Parameters 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 600 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 39102336
Buffer 2 MB (Dual Ported, Read Ahead)
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 40
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
Unformatted Capacity 22375 MB

ATA Device Features
SMART Supported
Security Mode Supported
Power Management Supported
Advanced Power Management Not Supported
Write Cache Supported
Host Protected Area Supported
Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
48-bit LBA Not Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Not Supported


Disk 0
Type: Uknown
Status: Unreadable
Partition Style: Not applicable
Capactiy: 0MB

So you have an disk with a bad partition table - is this what you call dead? [/b][/quote]
Partition Magic called it bad.

[The Kiler]

Originally posted by boyzeee@14 October 2003 - 08:40
download discwizard 2003 from seagate, its free and will diagnose,re-format, and set up all drives. I repair pcs and this piece of software has accessed so called "dead" hardrives for me on a few occasions. it will even access an ntfs drive put in a fat32(win98 etc) based pc when put in as a slave. you have the option of making floppys to access in dos if req. it wont fix actual "dead" drives but may help you format and get the drive to be seen. also a note on ya mobo> have you installed a separate graphics card or sound card? if so you must disable the onboard built in features otherwise you will get conflicts. update ya bios with the latest version and maybe change ya battery if it quite an old board. do you have any beeps when you boot ie more than 1&#33;? also try setting the mobo&#39;s settings to failsafe when installing xp and leave out things like modems and tv cards til it has setup and install them afterwards as these can give you blue screens in setup. hope this helps

I&#39;ll try. I&#39;ve been looking for HDD diagnostics for quite a while now.

[johnboy27]

maybe you should go to this page and download HDD Health and install it on your new drive before you start playing any games or anything and keep a good eye on it.

[clocker]

Originally posted by johnboy27@14 October 2003 - 07:35
maybe you should go to this page and download HDD Health and install it on your new drive before you start playing any games or anything and keep a good eye on it.

What page is that, JB 27?

[leonidas]

Hey the killer, so you didn&#39;t get rid of the green dwarfs ?

I told you, buy a pitbul and starve him.

[lynx]

@Kiler, if you PM me with your email address, I will send you a little utility which will clear bad partition tables. It restores the first 128 sectors to factory state, which is all you need. You will need a Win98 type boot disk to run it.

If you are coming up with these problems every time you try to install XP, could I suggest you may have a faulty XP disk. It is not unknown for dodgy sources to infect these disks, or simply have bad areas.