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Solve : ANOTHER WD Caviar bites the dust (2 in 2 months?)? |
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Answer» Did I walk under a ladder recently?... Spec: Tsunami tower, Intel Dual Core 2.14, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8800GTS, 2x Seagate HDD, 1x WD MyBook, and a broken WD Caviar 250GB, 500W Blue Storm PSU, MAudio 24/96 Soundcard After installing the above graphics card today my WD Caviar 250GB is no longer recognised by windows - I THINK it is recieving power as it feels warm on powering up but I dont feel much action going on Now it is important to mention that after installing a Seagate drive 2 months back the EXACT SAME WD Caviar drive suddenly stopped working. This new one that has broken today while installing the graphics card is the one that was replaced under warranty!! This can't be a coincidence? Both instances INVOLVED me opening the PC, 'moving' the hard drives AROUND, taking the SATA II and power cables out and re-inserting them into the slots. Both times the WD Caviar drive has not been recognised in Windows (or BIOS) following bootup. As this drive is my main Multimedia drive I am very pissed off. Are these drives that delicate that they cannot handle me touching them? Is it a power surge messing them up? Static? Why are the other drives fine when I play around with the insides?! The last drive im sure wasn't recieving power when this happened last time so im hoping this can be recoverable...... Its hard to troubleshoot problems like this. It could be that there is a defect in a certian batch of WD drives. It could be that something is wrong with our PSU and every time you hook up a new device to your system it surges that particular power source. It could be some super-weird coincedence and the drive just crapped out at that exact MOMENT both times. *censored*, it could be computer gnomes Hard drives are not overly sensative to physicaly touching them. *censored*, my wife has dropped one in particular at least 3x (that she has admitted to anyways, since it cracked the external enclosure) and it still works fine. Unless you didnt' ground yourself and maybe it shocked it with some static elecricity, but that is very unlikely unless that was the first thing you handled. I would suggest (as always) trying the hard drive in another computer before giving up on it. As for prevention, uh, I dunno. Would be a shot in the dark. Thanks Dam1an, Yes I have tried a friends PC and other sataII cables, power cables etc.. :-( I understand your points - it could be ANYTHING I guess - so I reckon this is just another HDD nightmare. I dont know what to do now - whether to get another internal one and risk this happening again, or get an external drive for my multimedia work in addition to my external backup drive. Only thing is I need it to had a good read speed for my graphics and video work - any ideas??DLoad and run the diagnostics from WD on that drive...i agree it is too coincendental but you never know. I have used there drives almost exclusively for many many years...never any issues. Then 2 years ago i had 2 fail within 3 months. However they are extremely good when it comes to Customer Service and even replaced a drive that was over 2 years out of warranty for me so i still give them most of my business. p.s. stay away from ladders for awhile... |
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