harddrive trouble

[jebathan]

I just got a brand new western digital 320 GB ultra IDE harddrive and im having some serious trouble with it. When i first tried to format it trough the windows disk management it got to 86% and then locked up. Now if i hook it up to same IDE cable as my first harddrive my computer wont even boot into windows, says that the harddrive couldn't be accessed. Then when i hook it to the other IDE cable it wont even reconize it and it makes a clicking noise whenever it first tries to detect it when i boot it. I'm guessing this is a sign that i have a bad harddrive? Just looking for some reasurance really.

 

[TheMajor]

Yes, it's a bad hard disk. RMA it. But first try in different computer, just to make sure.

 

[jebathan]

ok thnx i was going to try it out on one of the computers in my computer class today to make sure it happened there too.

 

[Nitestick]

download the WD hdd tools as well and run them on the disk and see what they have to say about it

 

[jebathan]

i just got my replacement and formated it with the WD tools and it says it's a little bigger than 320 gigs formated when i look at it with the WD tools but windows XP onlys sees 298 gigs of it, does windows not recognize partions bigger than 300 gigs?

 

[Hefemeister]

the drive is fine. hd manufactures list there sizes different than windows. a 100gb drive looks like a 92gb drive in windows. something to do with factors of 8 versus 10. dont know the math on it.

 

[Nitestick]

its binary megabytes/gigabytes (MiB/GiB) vs. metric megabytes/gigabytes (MB/GB). one binary gigabyte=1,073,741,824 bytes. one metric gigabyte= 1,000,000,000 bytes. so there is always confusion over which source refers to binary bytes and which to metric, hence the discrepency in numbers