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Naren Parker · 20-07-2008, 02:43 PM

Hi Guys

My rig's an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard with 2.5 GB RAM of which 128MB is shared by the onboard ATi Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset. I have a 120GB SATA hard disk on which Windows XP SP3 is installed and another 40GB IDE hard drive for my working data. My SMPS rating is 400W. I recently purchased a Seagate 500GB ST3500820AS 7200.11 SATA hard drive. The problem is that the drive did not complete the Full Format in Windows Disk Manager. It stuck at 4% and after a very long time went till 24% and suddenly the drive disappeared from the list !!. I checked the internal connections once again and this time the drive did not get detected in the BIOS but when I reconnected everything, the drive showed up and I quick formatted it. Files seemed to copy fine until recently when I started noticing that the performance is not upto the mark. File copying takes its own time even for small files. SMART tests showed signs of failure. I want to know how to remedy this. This is the second time this has happened. I got this drive after I had replaced a previous one due to the same problem. I had to send even this drive for replacement. Is there anything wrong with my system? The toll free number of Seagate is re-directing me to a Voice Mailbox after which the call disconnects.

I want to know whether this problem is in a specific batch of manufactured drives or with my system itself because even the earlier replacement has failed. Please advise so that I can take steps to ensure that the new replacement will not go kaput like this. I need the space for taking backups of crucial data.

Hope somebody helps...

Thanks all in advance...

20-07-2008, 02:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
Naren Parker Right Off the Assembly Line Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 29	SATA Hard Drive Problems Hi Guys My rig's an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard with 2.5 GB RAM of which 128MB is shared by the onboard ATi Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset. I have a 120GB SATA hard disk on which Windows XP SP3 is installed and another 40GB IDE hard drive for my working data. My SMPS rating is 400W. I recently purchased a Seagate 500GB ST3500820AS 7200.11 SATA hard drive. The problem is that the drive did not complete the Full Format in Windows Disk Manager. It stuck at 4% and after a very long time went till 24% and suddenly the drive disappeared from the list !!. I checked the internal connections once again and this time the drive did not get detected in the BIOS but when I reconnected everything, the drive showed up and I quick formatted it. Files seemed to copy fine until recently when I started noticing that the performance is not upto the mark. File copying takes its own time even for small files. SMART tests showed signs of failure. I want to know how to remedy this. This is the second time this has happened. I got this drive after I had replaced a previous one due to the same problem. I had to send even this drive for replacement. Is there anything wrong with my system? The toll free number of Seagate is re-directing me to a Voice Mailbox after which the call disconnects. I want to know whether this problem is in a specific batch of manufactured drives or with my system itself because even the earlier replacement has failed. Please advise so that I can take steps to ensure that the new replacement will not go kaput like this. I need the space for taking backups of crucial data. Hope somebody helps... Thanks all in advance...