So I've purchased my first ATA seagte hd years ago and loved its performance and silence.
I've decided to add another HD for additional storage. This time I bought a SATA 320gb (IIRC) HD. It worked great the first few months then starts making these grinding noises and erroring constantly. I reformatted the drive and it worked again fine. Then the errors occured again.
I used seagates Seatools to diagnose the problem and fixed any errors present. I used it again and it works again and starts erroring again. Because of the errors WinXP switches back to PIO mode which really annoys me. I figured I just had a bad HD.
I have 3 HD installed. A western digital (ATA), 160gb seagate (ATA), and a hitachi on the my first SATA. They all work flawlessly and never gave me any problems.
My sis wanted an additional HD for storage and I ordered another seagate. This seagate is an ATA. Again, everything works well up until today (the HD is about 2 months old). The same problems that occured on my HD is occuring on hers.
I don't know what the issue is but having 2 HD from the same manufacturer having the same error is pissing me off. What's worse is my computer isn't even detecting my SATA seagate anymore. It doesn't show u on the BIOS or windows. I have the Intel drivers installed and everything. I even went back to the generic WinXP SP2 drivers and it doesn't help. I am using an Abit IC-7 mobo. What is the issue here? Am I unlucky enough to acquire two bad HD?
EDIT: well I've tried everything, switching cables, power, etc and the HD still won't detect. Guess I won't be purchasing seagate again...
I've decided to add another HD for additional storage. This time I bought a SATA 320gb (IIRC) HD. It worked great the first few months then starts making these grinding noises and erroring constantly. I reformatted the drive and it worked again fine. Then the errors occured again.
I used seagates Seatools to diagnose the problem and fixed any errors present. I used it again and it works again and starts erroring again. Because of the errors WinXP switches back to PIO mode which really annoys me. I figured I just had a bad HD.
I have 3 HD installed. A western digital (ATA), 160gb seagate (ATA), and a hitachi on the my first SATA. They all work flawlessly and never gave me any problems.
My sis wanted an additional HD for storage and I ordered another seagate. This seagate is an ATA. Again, everything works well up until today (the HD is about 2 months old). The same problems that occured on my HD is occuring on hers.
I don't know what the issue is but having 2 HD from the same manufacturer having the same error is pissing me off. What's worse is my computer isn't even detecting my SATA seagate anymore. It doesn't show u on the BIOS or windows. I have the Intel drivers installed and everything. I even went back to the generic WinXP SP2 drivers and it doesn't help. I am using an Abit IC-7 mobo. What is the issue here? Am I unlucky enough to acquire two bad HD?
EDIT: well I've tried everything, switching cables, power, etc and the HD still won't detect. Guess I won't be purchasing seagate again...