Hard drive issues.

[Shawnathan]

Alright a while ago I tried installing an additional hard drive to my computer.. but for some reason the drive was read but when I went to save something onto it my comp completely froze. I threw a smaller hardrive in(15gb) completely pointless though. That worked perfectly. Any ideas?


And I did have a letter assigned and the drive formatted.

:feedback:


Thank you in advance! =]=]

[Drew Wilson]

I'm not a hardware person unfortunately, but did you make sure the pins in the drives were set correctly? (ala master and slave)

I'm guessing you have, but making sure. Otherwise, I would have no idea other than to somehow try SpinRight on the drive.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Start with telling us all the differences between
those drives. Then tell us all the usual information
we would need to start figuring it out, such as
identifying the computer and all the hard disks as
well as what you did to install both disks step by step.

[Shawnathan]

MY motherboard:n650ge-pb, It's an Invidia Mobo


Spec:

- NVIDIA nForce650i SLI + nForce 430 Chipset
- Support Intel LGA775 Core Processor Family
- 1 PCI Express x16@16-lane;2 PCI-Ex16@8-Lane
- Support FSB 1333MHz
- Advanced 4-Phase PWM Design
- Dual Channel DDR2 800 Memory DIMMs Supported
- Support 4 Serial ATA2 Devices with RAID 0, 1
- Gigabit LAN Supported
- Azalia 8 Channel Audio CODEC
- 1 * IEEE 1394a 9-Pin Headers
- CPU Vcore 8-Shift
- Embeded Aluminum Heat-pipe Thermal Kit
- ATX Form Factor

Hard drive I was trying to install:Model Number is,
WD1600BB22FTA0

the other drive I tested was a 15gb fireball hard drive?

The Pins are all good for the master/slave thing. And I am currently using a 160gb Sata hard drive. Thanks again for the assistance everyone.

As for installation I made the drive a slave drive. Screwed in the hard drive to the case and plugged everything in.

[RACKnRAIL]

I'm no expert either. I would try it as the master drive, then use a boot CD like Hirens to format it and diagnose the issue.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Is that another SATA disk or an IDE disk?

If IDE, is it the only one?

If there's another disk on the same cable or controller,
give all the info on that one too.

If it's the only disk of that type or on that cable it
cannot be a slave drive.

The part number suggests an older Caviar disk.
What else is on the label and can you find that
disk on their website?


Try formatting it to under 137 GB and if that works consult
the install manual for tips on installing larger disks.

[Signa]

Try formatting it to under 137 GB and if that works consult
the install manual for tips on installing larger disks.

That's a good point as long as he is still running XP pre-SP1. I don't think it will matter otherwise.

My question is how the BIOS sees the drive. At first glance, it sounds like its a bad drive. I've had some dieing HDDs that freeze the computer. You could also try turning off write caching. I hear that can help.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

XP SP1 is only one of many things that could have problems
with 48 bit LBA and you can find the problem popping up
with newer versions of all the operating systems because
there are still drivers, BIOS and motherboard settings to
look at.

Trying a format to under 137 GB will quickly confirm or
disprove that as a problem, saving us a lot of time.

[Shawnathan]

Ahh, At the time I had a disc drive as the master? and the hard drive as the slave. -Shrugs-

The Sata drive was the only other hard drive I had in it at the time.. and as far as OS goes. I have Vista.


and this might help but.. uhhh.. This hard drive came from an old modded xbox. o.0

[RACKnRAIL]

I believe xbox hard drives have some sort of lock, which would prevent you from using it in a PC. There may be a way to unlock it though. Google, my friend, Google!!

[drtoker]

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/pc-hdd.php
If the xbox was softmodded, that will work.

If it was hard modded (chip) then its not locked and may have another issue alltogether...

[Shawnathan]

Ahhh, The xbox was indeed Hard Modded.


Again thank you all for your responses.. this has been bugging me a lot. Maybe it is just some hard drive issue. =[

[drtoker]

You tried some hard drive diag's? I know dell has one built in that will test your hard drives from the advanced boot menu (f12), so do some other big name manufacturers...

[Shawnathan]

Alright new inquiry for you all.


I have a 500GB External Seagate drive.
Randomly crapped out on me. So I was reading some other forums and Read that a lot of people have fixed their drives by formatting them.


but When I try to format the drive after about 10 minutes or so I'll get a message saying Windows could not format drive.



Now the original issues are:

I can see the drive, But when I try opening it I get a message saying "the parameter is incorrect".. before that I was getting another error but I can't recall what it was. Something about I/O error.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.


btw, SN: 9qm435jb:thanks:

[mountain_rage]

Alright new inquiry for you all.


I have a 500GB External Seagate drive.
Randomly crapped out on me. So I was reading some other forums and Read that a lot of people have fixed their drives by formatting them.


but When I try to format the drive after about 10 minutes or so I'll get a message saying Windows could not format drive.



Now the original issues are:

I can see the drive, But when I try opening it I get a message saying "the parameter is incorrect".. before that I was getting another error but I can't recall what it was. Something about I/O error.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.


btw, SN: 9qm435jb:thanks:

Not sure if this is the problem, but if you want to restart your drive from scratch you want to go to the partition settings. To get there go to control panel -> Admin toosl -> computer management -> Disk Management. You can delete the volume, recreate it and partition it.