AHHH!!!.. Click, Click, Click???

[Shadal]

Today's not my day!

Ok, so I bought a 20GB Maxtor HD from www.kingcomp.com. When the first on arrived, it had a damaged corner, and was not able to format. Sent it back, got the REPLACEMENT today.. Installed it.. click, click, click, click, quiet... click, click, click, quiet..etc. Is this company really this bad?
On boot: Maxtor Rigis (primary) was detected.. Primary Disk Fail.. Enter bios, detect hard drives: Noneor Riges *(UGH)* Restart.. Sees drive, disk fails.. What's going on?? What can I do to fix this, if anything. I've already tried all the jumper settings possible, there's no guide or anything to show me where the jumper should be.. but if i set the drive up as primary, the jumper SHOULD be on the first two pins! Right?

Thx for any help..
Shadal

[Shadal]

Ok, so I was naughty, and peeked under the cover.. The drive is doing exactly what I thought it was doing.. the little needle that rides over the magnetic disk is just going back, and forth, and back, and forth... etc.. Dono why.. but it is..

[Sterling_Aug]

If you peeked under the cover, then you voided the warrenty!!!

[Shadal]

Sterling_Aug,
I realize that.. that's why i said

I was naughty

cept' I did it very carefully as to not break any seal! so as to say it looks as tho it's never been touched!

[radbasa]

How were you able to peak under the cover? Hard drive seal tapes go all the way around. And to be able to see the armature needs a pretty huge opening to peak into.

[Shadal]

radbasa,
The cover came off very nicely, and cleanly! used a raisor blade to take the 2 stickers off the top two screws, took out the other top 6 screws, and the cover lifts right off.. there's a rubber seal on the inside that goes all the way around, but that's it.. set it back on, screw it back in, throw the stickers over the two covering screws, and your done..

[Jonty]

Perhaps someone did the same thing before this drive was sent to you!

Why do all this?! Just send the thing back and maybe get your money back as opposed to a refund.

[Sterling_Aug]

Just in case you feel even more brave!!!

http://www.bp6.com/pics/holodeck2/re...d%20mod/hd.htm

[radbasa]

that was crazy sterling

would you do it to your harddrive?

[Shadal]

LOL...
It looks as tho he did, seeing how he said he took the hard drive from his Linux box.. Still, I don't really see the point in it, seeing how the HD is inside the case, unseen!

Shadal

[seanc]

Well, I guess if you have a way of mounting it sideways and opening up the side of the case (or doing something similar to the case side)...

Sean

[radbasa]

Well, I'm pretty sure he F-upped the designed air flow in those drives sealing it up as he did. The top halves of HD cases have small passageways for air to enter to deal with the air pressure the spinning platters create inside the case.