2nd hdd fail in a month?

[wolf20]

Hi,

Awhile back i posted something about my hdd suddenly failing, still under warrenty, so i get another new 1 and after a while on that it fails too.

I don't know why my hard drives keep dying on me, both times when i was playing a game which is a real resource hog. The rest of my machine seems to work fine and i even bought a real good surge protecter b4 i got the new hd.

Could it have something to do with my power supply in my computer. Could it be somehow causing spikes killing my hd?
Any1 have a similar problem b4 and know whats meesing my drives?

Thanks
J T

ps : system specs

P 3 - 800 Hz
win2k pro
128 mb ram
dead 30 G HD (maxtor 7200 rpm)
Asus Cuvx mobo
geforce prophet 2 MX
sound blaster live

did i miss anything?

[rextex]

In my opinion; Yes.But it could just be the drives.
My brother-in-law had all kinds of problems with a western digital some time back.Replaced it 3 times.He also replaced the power supply with a quality one.Then the problem was history.
Don't know if it was the power supply or just low quality on a batch of drives.But never-the-less it was resolved this way.

[biglaker]

Wolf20
Just out of curiosity-- what were the symptoms of failure on these drives? Did windows just completely die? Did you get a large number of bad clusters? What happened?
Biglaker.

[Psycho Logical]

If the drive was replaced by the manufacturer under warranty, chances are it was not new but a "factory-reconditioned" unit that someone else was having problems with.

[ironik311]

Just a thought,
Win2k pro with NTFS killed my drive - I don't know the exact cause I can only guess. I replaced my drive and formatted FAT32 and everything is ok now. My speculations were that it was an older drive and couldn't handle NTFS for god only knows what reason.

This is only really relevant if you formatted NTFS, but just in case I'd format with FAT32 and see how you go.

[wolf20]

Biglaker :

Like i said eailer, i was playing this game, when all of a sudden it freezzes, then i get a blue screen with some info about a memory dumb on it, and then my hd won't get detected by the bios when i reboot.

If i use another hd to boot my pc and plug my current hd as secondry, i can browse through my hd but it makes weird nosies when was backing up my documents to the new hd.

Thanks for ur replies, i have given my computer to the repair shop and they said they will let me know in a week. :(

[shark_megabyte]

So you were playing the same game both times?
Did you buy the game/s or download it/them? It's an especially bad idea to be downloading your games if you're not running a regularly updated antivirus.

(Trying to zero in or scratch off the gaming itself as a factor in the hd death)

[wolf20]

I bought the game and was playing it for the last 3 months, never had a problem with it, only thing is at certain parts of the game when it loading a new area, i hear the hd spinning fast. Most games i've played do a similar thing, so it shouldn't be a problem or something the hd can't handle.

Got norton too, but i don't understand how the hd could be destroyed my by running software on it (even if it is bad software). Unless u mean it somehow freezes windows causing the hd to crash?

I think its my power supply thats bad, piking my hd especially while its performing a lot of tasks. Can't think of anything else that would cause it to breakdown.

[Lemon]

I also just had the same hard drive go bad on me (Maxtor 30gig). I did manage to get it going again with the help of a utility from Maxor's web site but I still returned it for a Western Digital.