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Zotzmein · 03-13-2003, 05:42 PM

Six months ago I installed a hard drive on a system. One month later while booting it reported hard drive damage. One week ago I replaced that hard drive. When doing so I did a fresh install of the O/S. I’ve not loaded any software to speak. This morning when I booted the system again said there was hard drive damage. The first hard drive was a 40 gig Western Digital purchased at Office Depot. This newest hard drive is a 60 gig Maxtor purchased at Staples. Besides that difference the first drive used the motherboard’s IDE interface, this hard drive uses a Promise PCI ATA 100 card interface. Both hard drives have been the primary boot drives.

O/S Windows 98 SE with all the updates.
IE 6.0 all updates
Abit BX 6 revision 2 motherboard
512 Megs SDRAM
60 gig Maxtor Hard Drive
Nvidia MX 200 video card
Sound Blaster PCI 128 audio card
LG DVD-ROM
LG CD/RW 52x24x52
Linksys PCI NIC 10/100
Promise ATA 100 controller card non RAID

Regards,
Zotz Mein

PS I used WD testing tools and confirmed that the WD 40 gig drive indeed had hard drive damage.

03-13-2003, 05:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zotzmein Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Tulsa, OK. USA Posts: 404	See today's most popular deals at » Hard Drive Damage…2x Six months ago I installed a hard drive on a system. One month later while booting it reported hard drive damage. One week ago I replaced that hard drive. When doing so I did a fresh install of the O/S. I’ve not loaded any software to speak. This morning when I booted the system again said there was hard drive damage. The first hard drive was a 40 gig Western Digital purchased at Office Depot. This newest hard drive is a 60 gig Maxtor purchased at Staples. Besides that difference the first drive used the motherboard’s IDE interface, this hard drive uses a Promise PCI ATA 100 card interface. Both hard drives have been the primary boot drives. O/S Windows 98 SE with all the updates. IE 6.0 all updates Abit BX 6 revision 2 motherboard 512 Megs SDRAM 60 gig Maxtor Hard Drive Nvidia MX 200 video card Sound Blaster PCI 128 audio card LG DVD-ROM LG CD/RW 52x24x52 Linksys PCI NIC 10/100 Promise ATA 100 controller card non RAID Regards, Zotz Mein PS I used WD testing tools and confirmed that the WD 40 gig drive indeed had hard drive damage.