I bought this harddrive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144032R
Installed it on my SATA 1 port (my first SATA drive), and I was using it with my 2 other IDE drives. When I started formatting through Windows, the harddrive began to click, and it almost had a rhythm to it. After it was about 60% done with the format windows would completely freeze, couldn't move the mouse or anything. Had to reboot. Tried it again and it did the same thing. I remembered something from when I was building my friends computer, on his ASUS A8N5X there was an insert in the manual that showed where to hook up your SATA drive in conjunction with other drives, and I remembered it saying to use SATA port 3 if you only have 1 harddrive. So I did that. Surely enough, my format worked and the drive is up and running now. It still clicked during that format. I used S.M.A.R.T. harddrive monitor and everything checked out fine, but should I RMA this harddrive or what? My specs are in my sig.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144032R
Installed it on my SATA 1 port (my first SATA drive), and I was using it with my 2 other IDE drives. When I started formatting through Windows, the harddrive began to click, and it almost had a rhythm to it. After it was about 60% done with the format windows would completely freeze, couldn't move the mouse or anything. Had to reboot. Tried it again and it did the same thing. I remembered something from when I was building my friends computer, on his ASUS A8N5X there was an insert in the manual that showed where to hook up your SATA drive in conjunction with other drives, and I remembered it saying to use SATA port 3 if you only have 1 harddrive. So I did that. Surely enough, my format worked and the drive is up and running now. It still clicked during that format. I used S.M.A.R.T. harddrive monitor and everything checked out fine, but should I RMA this harddrive or what? My specs are in my sig.