Extracting file cause hard drive to turn off, then back on.

[Bizkitkid2001]

I went to go extract the zip file i had downloaded so I could star the eve of destruction installer inside. But during the extraction, my hard drive shuts off for a second, then spins back up. Everything then freezes. I am not 100% sure what is wrong. On restart windows xp does a scan disk, but doesn't find any errors. Its a farely new drive, a little over a year old. Its a 40gig WD. I'm thinking its either a faulting hard drive, or I have to many thing connected to my PSU, but then again, everything would shut off right?

[Peter M]

Run a SMART status check on the drive. That'll tell you whether the drive has seen an internal condition being off.

[Bizkitkid2001]

how do i run a SMART status check?

[Peter M]

Using the drive manufacturer's diagnostics utility.

[AzKidd69]

als try googling for active smart.. it's a program that will monitor SMART staus from windows. (15 day trial)

I had a maxtor that was going south but the Maxtor Utilities (MaxBlast) said the drive was perfectly fine when it truth is was hosed. took a bit of arguing with the Maxtor Rep to get a new drive but he did finally understand what I was telling him. Funny thing was. The day I got the new drive and installed it the old drive went south just as I was transferring a few not too important things

[Bizkitkid2001]

The utility said the drive passed the smart check.

The drive loads games just fine, i can download stuff to it off the internet. It was just that one zip file that was giving it problems.