Anyone had a problem with SATA drives?

[Twin Fist]

I just buildt a new machine a couple weeks ago, with a SATA hard drive, and it is starting to act a bit odd.

 

[Andrew Green]

Odd how? I've never had a issue with them.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

How cool is the inside of your case?

 

[Andrew Green]

How cool is the inside of your case?

So cool it makes The Fonz look square.

oh... you mean temperature... and weren't asking me... nevermind...

 

[Twin Fist]

do sata drives have heat issues?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

All drives do. Is there good air flow, proper fan placement, etc? Just a few of the things I'd check.

 

[Twin Fist]

well, I am getting a post, and a wondows spash screen, then nothing. So next time it tries to start in safe mode, locks up.

Kind of aggrivating.

This is the second sata drive in a row thats given me fits

 

[Andrew Green]

well, I am getting a post, and a wondows spash screen, then nothing. So next time it tries to start in safe mode, locks up.

Kind of aggrivating.

This is the second sata drive in a row thats given me fits

Did it work before? How did you get windows onto the SATA drive, or is this a secondary drive?

 

[Twin Fist]

it's the main drive, installed XP from a CD, and it was working just fine for a few weeks

 

[Shicomm]

could be the drive , but that kind of issues could come up with ide drives as well...

The most easy thing to do is getting your hands on a copy of hirens boot cd and try with the diagnostics software on that to see if it's the drive indeed.

Also worth a try ( but only if you're sure it's no defective drive ! ) is booting from your xp cd/dvd .
Don't install but choose the R ( repair ) option instead.
Select your install ( will be the 1 in allmost all cases ) confirm with enter and then type the command chkdsk /r ( again confirming with enter )
This will do a check on the data content and fix up generally errors.
The process can take quite a while on big hdd's !

After it's done , simply reboot ( command : exit ) and see what happens... in some cases the chkdsk command saved tons of work on many machines !

 

[bowser666]

Install a program called PC Wizard. It monitors temperatures , of CPU , GPU , hard drives, fan rpm's etc...... Its also free. I use it and i think it is a great free utility.

 

[Dao]

What's the make of the drive?
Maybe you need spinrite!