Dear Gents,
Some time ago I was given a maxtor 40gig as a gift, after installation, it worked great for severl amonths as a slave drive until it just up and quit. Months later, the same friend gave me a WD 80 gig, short time later it died. I replaced it 3 months ago with a brand new Westerdigital 120 GB, and it fizzled on me too. All of which went the same way.
I started getting "hard drive failure immenent" errors on boot up, they'd occasionally boot but more often than not would just be dead.
I ran the Western Digital Diagnostic CD on the 120 gig and gave me the same answer as on the 80 gig. "No drive present"
I'm wondering if the issue could be something other than hardware failure or if anyone has an idea what would or could contribute to such a problem. Viruses? Mobo or power supply causing problems?
I was running Win98Se on teh 40 and 80 GB and WinXP on the 120.
Some time ago I was given a maxtor 40gig as a gift, after installation, it worked great for severl amonths as a slave drive until it just up and quit. Months later, the same friend gave me a WD 80 gig, short time later it died. I replaced it 3 months ago with a brand new Westerdigital 120 GB, and it fizzled on me too. All of which went the same way.
I started getting "hard drive failure immenent" errors on boot up, they'd occasionally boot but more often than not would just be dead.
I ran the Western Digital Diagnostic CD on the 120 gig and gave me the same answer as on the 80 gig. "No drive present"
I'm wondering if the issue could be something other than hardware failure or if anyone has an idea what would or could contribute to such a problem. Viruses? Mobo or power supply causing problems?
I was running Win98Se on teh 40 and 80 GB and WinXP on the 120.