Two things comes in mind.. Either overheating and/or faulty PSU. As for faulty HDD controller board (due to bad design and components), less likely nowadays.. However there was one which is infamous.. the Quantum Fireball series where the spindle motor driver I.C always blow due to lack of fuse and/or unstable PSU voltages.

Note: Faulty PSU can generate higher than normal voltages.. usually parts of the motherboard and CPU aren't affected much because the processor draws its power from an on-board voltage regulator (i.e. stepping down to VCore).

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 11:56 AM

If i told u tat hdd is new n it cal maxtor, do u believe or not? Power Supply tat time attually i dunno is faulty or notlah but it runs fine after 3 month it cannot on.
I use tat power supply nearly kil a new pc tat ppl can buy...hehehe

Fake information: Formatting a hard disk too many times will cause it to fail.

Truth : To put it shortly, formatting your hard disk will NOT reduce its lifespan. Yes, formatting is popularly thought to reduce hard disk lifespan but that is nothing more than a myth.

Formatting is NOT a stressful event for the hard disk. The read/write heads do NOT touch the platter surface, so damage to the platter only occurs if there is any shock to the drive during operation. You can format your hard disk 20 times a day, every day and it will not be more likely to fail than any other drive.


Fake information: Formatting the hard disk will stress the needle (head actuator).

Truth: Formatting is done contiguously. This means formatting is done in a serial order, i.e. sector 500, sector 501, sector 502, etc. There is very little movement of the head actuators. Therefore, formatting will not stress the head actuators.

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 11:57 AM

hmm how can i check if my hdd got bad sector ?

a simple way:-
- type CHkDSK C: in Command Prompt.
*replace C: with the drive u wish to check. or..

- CHKDSK C: /R
* /R Scan for and attempt Recovery of bad sectors.

umm what msg will show if the disk got bad sector

something like this:


For the partiton being using(eg:c/) u cant perform CHKDSK C: /R, u need to [Tick] Check Disk of the particular partiton and it will fix it during the next boot.

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 11:57 AM

thanks for the info yo dood

uhh one more question ,, how do i retain the ms-dos window after i check disk ?

i think should add another one.

Using parallel HDD cooler fan. coz can block breather hole.

thank you for a good information!!

1. no jumpers seen.
2. no problem with the card or cable coz i exchanged everything with the second identical hdd and it works.
3. no heat produced when i attached the hdd to 12v power supply from another comp for 5hr.

no other scsi cable available so can't change cable. compuzone says they dun have scsi stuff to check this hdd but they do sell it if you want it. only MyPC has cash-on-delivery SCSI cable cost rm180 (15 channel with terminal - only choice, no others will fit this hdd)

not sure what model but bought some 3 years ago. athlon t-bred 1800+ that time.

no you don't have bad sectors. you have a different problem. in your pic it says 0 kb in bad sectors.

you can't retain ms dos after chkdsk if you are checking your OS partition because it only checks on your next boot.

usually this is what i do:
1. go to start>run
2. type 'cmd' and the command prompt pops up.
3. let's say you want to check D drive and C drive is you OS. type D:\ hit enter and then type CHKDSK /F (to fix errors) or CHKDSK /R (to check free space) or CHKDSK /F /R
4. now it will ask you to force a dismount or not. make sure you are not taking anything from that drive and they type 'y'
5. chkdsk will now run in front of you and after that the window stays.

if you check you OS partition and you can't read the report fast enough after the check, when it finish checking and enter windows, go to command prompt, type CHKDSK (read-only mode) and after chkdsk finish you will see the identical report as you missed previously.

if your comp gone cranky and you decided to run chkdsk on all partitions, do not force dismount on non-os partition but schedule them to check after restart. (How can you correct the other partitions when your OS partition is corrupted??) In this case where you schedule C:\ for chkdsk with other non-os partitions, chkdsk will 1st check all partition with C:\ being the last one, and it will restart and check all non-os partition again. in that way it is better.

if you have problem with volume bipmap, free space problem, mft fragmentation, hdd data transfer corruption, please please don't run chkdsk. it will only corrupt it further.

hope this experience of mine help you guys

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 12:04 PM

I just lost a 250GB SATA hdd. I only removed it to mount on another PC and it died. Just like that.

really? u mean open hdd casing rite? not the sidepanel/case, coz my i've left my case naked eversince i got my new 200G seagate sata

+got a rm15 fan under it...blows the heat i think 32/33c normal eh

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 11:54 AM

Inside harddisk also got powerful magnet?? I just saw one before.

Power Outages In The Midst Of Defragmentation

A relatively rare cause of HDD failure is a power outage in the middle of a defragmentation but I have seen it happen and even though the damage is non-permanent in most cases, it may require a low level format which results in complete loss of all data.


THIS ONE IS TRUE 100% i dah kena once!

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 12:06 PM

I just cramp my WD 250GB,
It ruins my 4th partition (the largest partition backup)

possible damage cause by torrent

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 12:06 PM

i always vacum my pc coz got alot of dust collecting inside...untill now nothing happens..lol

you are going to kill your PC with static charges from the vacuum

i destroyed a hdd by knocking it (coz the transfer was freaking slow) during data transfer using USB to IDE cable.

I loss 250G of movie and series and I don't know what happend to the harddisk...just bought it last year...damn...