I think my HDD is dying..

[Shamrock]

Its a sad day when it comes to this, but I think it is dying. It has been showing the signs of death, though there has yet to be any ticking noise. About the beginning of this year maybe a little later, my computer will randomly blue screen. I mean it would do it out of nowhere. Like today, I didn't install anything. I didn't add new hardware. It decides to do it twice in the matter of 2 hours. I don't understand it.

Do you think it is possible that it is the HDD and not the memory or anything else? I mean that, the ram, and the CPU are the only thing left from my original build. I replaced a dvd/cd burner with a dvd burner. That was the only thing I did, and that was about a week and a half ago. Today is the first blue screen since about 2-2.5 weeks ago.

I don't understand. :|

 

[Ennui]

It could be the HDD.

 

[Shamrock]

It could be the HDD.

Reply fast enough?

 

[Ennui]

New Posts ftw.

 

[Shamrock]

New Posts ftw.

Not helping ftl.

 

[hneaz]

defrag, and get some program that checks for errors. if not, plan a funeral for ur hdd.

 

[Shamrock]

I think its almost 100% dead. It still has a tiny bit of life in which I think if by not using it for the next couple days, order a HDD, and make that primary, I can back up everything onto it. Lets hope everything goes good.

I just tried to boot it, and it gave me a DISK BOOT ERROR or something of the sort. It said insert system disk and hit enter.

Ok so now that I will be ordering a new HDD, anyone have any ideas?

Recommend me a good one please. Preferably +120 GB.

Thanks!

 

[Moxie Wolf]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101257

I have a 70GB Raptor and its done awesome worth the price.

Also advice, spend $12 on Ashampoo Magical Defrag
http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?idstring=0044&session_langid=2

it constantly defrags your computer anytime you're not using it, any mouse movement or other software running and it pauses, I run games with it always on its never caused a problem, I use it because the Windows XP defrag is like a light version of Diskeeper and can lack in ability to perfect its finish.

 

[Shamrock]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101257

I have a 70GB Raptor and its done awesome worth the price.

Also advice, spend $12 on Ashampoo Magical Defrag
http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?idstring=0044&session_langid=2

it constantly defrags your computer anytime you're not using it, any mouse movement or other software running and it pauses, I run games with it always on its never caused a problem, I use it because the Windows XP defrag is like a light version of Diskeeper and can lack in ability to perfect its finish.

I really want the 150 GB. I'm always using around 80 GB. The 150 GB is too much though. Is there anywhere else that would have it for possibly under $200? Plus, I am out of work at the moment so the $250 would definetly kill me. I will probably purchase the 74 GB. Seems worth it.

 

[Moxie Wolf]

no one I know of, I have always ended back to ZipZoomFly, good prices and free shipping.

if you get the 74gb just see if you can salvage the old drive to hold media and pictures and such, first back up, then format it, and use it as a back up storage, its what I do with my old Seagate 80gb Baracuda.

 

[Shamrock]

no one I know of, I have always ended back to ZipZoomFly, good prices and free shipping.

if you get the 74gb just see if you can salvage the old drive to hold media and pictures and such, first back up, then format it, and use it as a back up storage, its what I do with my old Seagate 80gb Baracuda.

I know I love ZZF. That is what I was going to try. I mean I know the drive is still good, but I know its on its way to death. I'm going to see maybe it can't handle the load of an OS (I doubt it, just a thought.).

I was going to use it as a secondary drive. Is the 10000 RPM good? Like how much can I expect for the load times to increase and such?

 

[giant384]

i would get a 160gb seagate drive they are very good quality but if you cant a afford the raptor then thats my suggestion

 

[Tyguy]

I wouldnt get anything under 200 Gigs....assuming your going to buy one and keep it for a while......

 

[Moxie Wolf]

how do you need a 200GB plus? unless you do video editing then that makes since, I've never yet had a need for more than 100GB, but everyone is different so I guess the matter is getting what fits

 

[Shippi]

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[Reaktor4]

If you think your drive is broke, run spinrite on it.

 

[The Brick]

I have 140gb total and it's constantly full. In my next upgrade Im gonna buy half a terabyte.

 

[evil^milk]

Lol, I have a 20 gig hard-drive and I constantly have to erase things just so I have around 200 megs of free space.

 

[Shamrock]

74 GB Raptor for $130 or a 160 GB Samsung SATA drive for $60?
$1.75/GB or $0.37/GB

 

[giant384]

74 GB Raptor for $130 or a 160 GB Samsung SATA drive for $60?
$1.75/GB or $0.37/GB

considering the rpms and cache sizes are different you cant really compare by price

 

[Shamrock]

I've decided the 10000RPMs are too pricey for me.

So I've narrowed it down between this:

Maxtor 200GB L01M200 8MB Buffer Serial ATA (SATA) - Retail Hard Drive Kit. - $60


or this

SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series HD160JJ 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM - $60

I'm leaning more towards storage instead of performance.

How would I go about installing a SATA drive? This would be my first.

 

[The Brick]

If your motherboard supports SATA, go for it.

I personally recommend the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 200GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM. It's €70 here.

 

[Dumb Dude]

My 74gb raptor is showing crazy signs of dying and is less than a year old. Twice now the file system has corrupted itself and over 50 times it has refused to boot due to a "DISK READ ERROR". I usually just turn it off and on and switch SATA ports until it decides to work again. Happens about every 2 weeks.

 

[Shamrock]

If your motherboard supports SATA, go for it.

I personally recommend the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 200GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM. It's €70 here.

You didn't help.

I wanted to know what the majority of people here would choose.

 

[Dumb Dude]

I would go ahead and choose the Samsung only becuase I have purchased other Samsung's before and have had no issues with them at all.

And aout installing a SATA drive, its just like IDE only you use a smaller cable and you plug it in a little SATA port. No jumpers to mess with, very easy stuff. Though some hard drives don't come with the SATA power adapter thing, so you need to make sure your motherboard came with one, or to buy one seperately.

 

[Shamrock]

I would go ahead and choose the Samsung only becuase I have purchased other Samsung's before and have had no issues with them at all.

And aout installing a SATA drive, its just like IDE only you use a smaller cable and you plug it in a little SATA port. No jumpers to mess with, very easy stuff. Though some hard drives don't come with the SATA power adapter thing, so you need to make sure your motherboard came with one, or to buy one seperately.

To tell you the truth, this is a Samsung I am running on.

Do you need to install SATA drivers or anything? My motherboard supports SATA 100%. Its an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Oh look at that! We have the same motherboard. I needed no SATA drivers at all when I installed mine. You sir, are good to go!

 

[Shamrock]

Oh look at that! We have the same motherboard. I needed no SATA drivers at all when I installed mine. You sir, are good to go!

Damn. I love MSI. They make the best products I swear. I've never had a problem with them.. EVER.

Anyway, I will be ordering tomorrow. Will the Samsung drive be faster than the Maxtor? Maxtor has SATA while the Samsung has SATA 3.0gb/s. I'm new to this whole SATA world!

 

[Dumb Dude]

I'm not too sure about the performance difference. In all honesty its probably something you wouldn't notice anyway (compraring them both in real world situations, not synthetic benchmarks).

 

[Moxie Wolf]

I have used 3 maxtors in the past, all ended up dying on me, one I had to return twice in less than a week it first returned, after that I used Seagate twice with no issues just viruses sending my last to hell, for my latest I have the WD 74GB Raptor and the Old 80GB Seagate formatted and use as a storage area, I run nothing from it.

all computers are different though, While my old PC Hated Maxtor, Others use them fine. anywho its 2am and I'm going to pass out in bed now