Problems with new HDD - help please :)

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Hi!
I've just bought HDD (Seagate, 250 GB, IDE). I've partitioned it into
three partitions and installed Windows XP.
The HDD behaves strange. Everything looks ok, but every 10 minutes it
makes "bzzzz" like it would read/write a lot of small files (like during
calibration). It takes about 20 sec. The HDD led do not lights during
this period of time, nobody touches computer.
Despite of this the HDD works fine.
Does anybody knows what the problem is?
Antos.

 

[Gerard Bok]

I've just bought HDD (Seagate, 250 GB, IDE). I've partitioned it into
three partitions and installed Windows XP.
The HDD behaves strange. Everything looks ok, but every 10 minutes it
makes "bzzzz" like it would read/write a lot of small files (like during
calibration). It takes about 20 sec. The HDD led do not lights during
this period of time, nobody touches computer.
Despite of this the HDD works fine.
Does anybody knows what the problem is?

Hard to see, from a great distance

Things to check:
- Is your power supply holding out ?
- Does the drive get hot ?
- You could download the Seagate drive sanity utility (from their
website) and see if it reveals anything.

And: how did you install Windows ?
With a network cable plugged in ?
Chances are, that you caught a virus (or two) while still
installing and downloading updates.

 

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Things to check:

- Is your power supply holding out ?
- Does the drive get hot ?
- You could download the Seagate drive sanity utility (from their
website) and see if it reveals anything.

And: how did you install Windows ?
With a network cable plugged in ?
Chances are, that you caught a virus (or two) while still
installing and downloading updates.

I've installed it with network cable unplugged. Also before installation
I've downloaded anti-virus and firewall. So when I connected to internet
I've got anti-virus and firewall ready.
The drive is between 40 and 50 centigrades hot. I've checked it with
SeaTool and the drive didn't pass (it hangs) some partial tests but it
passed Full Test.
Antos

Thank you for your response.

 

[William Custers]

I've installed it with network cable unplugged. Also before installation
I've downloaded anti-virus and firewall. So when I connected to internet
I've got anti-virus and firewall ready.
The drive is between 40 and 50 centigrades hot. I've checked it with
SeaTool and the drive didn't pass (it hangs) some partial tests but it
passed Full Test.
Antos

Thank you for your response.

I've got an older series of the seagate disk you mentioned and it did
the same thing although Windows did not crash or give any warning of any
kind. Some time later Windows would crash without any warning with some
strange disk activity :S

However, just check this with your hardware supplier. It may be normal
with certain type of disks or it may even be a conflict with your ide
controller on certain boards. Anyway they should replace your disk if it
fails some of the manufacturers tests.

Good luck...

 

[Lee]

Hi!
I've just bought HDD (Seagate, 250 GB, IDE). I've partitioned it into
three partitions and installed Windows XP.
The HDD behaves strange. Everything looks ok, but every 10 minutes it
makes "bzzzz" like it would read/write a lot of small files (like during
calibration). It takes about 20 sec. The HDD led do not lights during
this period of time, nobody touches computer.
Despite of this the HDD works fine.
Does anybody knows what the problem is?
Antos.

If the drive is working Ok otherwise, it probably is the temperature
compensation routine. In the old days, we let drives run for at least
an hour before both low and high level formating and O/S install.
Modern drives have a temperature compensation routine in the drive's
internal software that takes care of this. On some drives, this can be
heard, on others it won't be heard when mounted in a closed case.

Regards
Lee

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