Is this harddisk bad ?

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by wwnr, May 1, 2008.

  1. wwnr

    wwnr MDL Novice

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    #1 wwnr, May 1, 2008
    Hi,

    I have a new harddisk. It is Hitachi 160G SATA. The bios detected the new harddisk, but after waiting about 20 seconds when booting , I got this message:

    Harddisk Error (XXXX)

    In the CMOS setting screen, the harddisk has been detected, but its size is 0,and other parameters are blank.

    I also heard strange sounds ( not too sharp) after powerd on my machine.

    My motherboard and CPU are both new. I have tried set the IDE mode to non-RAID and AHCI, and have changed diffrent sata ports. The sata cable was come from my motherboard, so it could't be a problem.

    Is the harddisk bad ?

    Thank you.
     
  2. judeh101

    judeh101 MDL Novice

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    #2 judeh101, May 3, 2008
    if there is any sign of noise, it is not a good thing.....
    I have a Hitachi CinemaStar HDD and it has 22 reallocated sectors, I will never buy Hitachi again!
    My drive is 164.7 GB.
     
  3. grumps

    grumps MDL Novice

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    #3 grumps, May 14, 2008
    If can get Spinrite the computer will boot into it if it is set to boot from cd and you can do a thorough check of the drive and possible recovery. It is worth a try.