IBM Deskstar crashing

[dannySwe]

I have an older computer, it's a P2 350 MHz and I believe the motherboard is a Acer UDMA 66.
My problem is the following; a couple of months ago I added another HDD, an IBM Deskstar 40 Gb (ATA100, 5400rpm) to my system, making it the second HDD - the primary drive is the one that came with the computer (10Gb, ATA66 probably). Well that configuration worked great, no problems at all. BUT, a couple of days ago I decided to replace the old primary HDD with a new IBM Deskstar 60Gb (ATA100, 7200rpm), I installed it as IDE primary channel masterdrive (divided into two partitions C: & D: FAT32), installed WinXP. But whenever I changed driveletters for my DVD and CD-R or ZIP drive, the C: partition crashed, this also happened if I changed the IDE cables for the secondary IDE channel.
After the 3rd crash, it now seems my 60Gb hdd is completely corrupted, no program will recognize or format it...
What is causing this? Is it because my mboard is UDMA66 and the hdd is ATA100 (is it "too fast" for my system?) Should I get a new one, or will the same thing happen again?

Any ideas/suggestions greatly appreciated!

My system is:
P2 350 MHz
384 Mb RAM
Acer UDMA66 VX M-board
SCSI card AHA-2930CU
SCSI ZIP drive

 

[Mitzi]

If you do a search on these forums you'll find many disgruntled people with IBM failing/failed drives. I am one of them - I had the same as you, a Deskstar 40Gb 5400RPM, it failed without warning and I'm still waiting for a replacement after nearly 5 weeks!

To test your IBM drive goto IBMs support page and download and run the DFT (Drive Fitness Test), that will tell you the situation with your drives.

Good luck, oh and welcome to the forum BTW

 

[dannySwe]

Thanks for your reply man. I downloaded that diag. utility from IBM, and indeed my HDD were corrupted.
Anyway, after searching these and some other forums, it's obvious that alot of people have had big problems
with GXP Deskstars.
Looks like IBM's gonna be contacted by yet another pissed-off customer soon!

- Danny

 

[Mitzi]

Unfortunately, to hear you hard drive is fvcked up is no real suprise.

Hope you don't loose and thing important and you get a replacement soon.